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In article <1992Nov15.010641.28325@leland.Stanford.EDU> garygm@leland.Stanford.EDU (Gary Brainin) writes:
>
>   I have an interesting problem.  I'd like to print a couple of Word
>for Windows files on my friend's laserprinter.  However, she neither
>has nor has room for both windows and WfW on her computer.  So, rather
>than moving hardware about, I figured I could just print the file,
>redirecting the printer output to a file, then copy the file from the
>disk to her laserprinter.
>
>   However, when I did this, I got some rather peculiar output.  Only
>the first two lines of the file printed, and the rest of the page was
>blank.  (I also had to press the print button, since no EOP was sent,
>but I can live with that.)  She has an IBM Laserprinter E, and I'm
>using the Windows IBM Laserprinter 4019 driver, which the manual
>indicated would be correct.
>
>   So does anybody know why I'm getting this odd output, and, more
>importantly, how I can fix it?

Try using the /b(inary) qualifier to the copy command. Trying to do
the same thing to a HP IIP I got a similar result. Using /b cured it
(and, I think, removed the necessity for a manual press of the
FormFeed button); strangely enough I have *never* have to use /b when
copying executable from disk to disk.

Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.