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In article <230@gordon.UUCP> jpd@gordon.UUCP (Jim Drummey) writes:

> MSWindows drivers for QMS and Tektronix printers keep putting a Cntl-D
> character at the first line of the file. The printers get convinced that
> the file is not PostScript. Anyone know a way to stop this? Thanks.

Yes.  I had this problem.  It is a generic problem with all Win3.0 PS
drivers.  What was worse was that I was redirecting LPT1: through the
network to our Unix machines.

If you look at the output, you will see that there is a ^D at both the
beginning and the end of the file.

When I called MicroSoft Tech support, I couldn't get a good answer.  The
best they could tell me was that the ^Ds were for resetting whatever
printer they used.

What I discovered was:

	1. Don't use print manager.

	2. Send your printouts to LPT1.OS2 instead of LPT1:.  Windows
	   handles the hardware devices and does its own printing.  If you
	   send a file to LPT1.*, Windows will open a file and write output
	   to it.  DOS will intercept the open call and redirect the output
	   to the printer.

I had to play with it a bit, and actually started defining LPT1.TXT, but I
got it to work.

-Israel Pinkas
 Intel Corp
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Disclaimer: The above are my personal opinions, and in no way represent
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to be a statement of Intel.

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