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Article #1249PRINT.EXE a binary file?
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Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 03:10
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 03:10
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I have the need to dump megabytes of bitmap image to some slow dot matrix printers. I thought this might a neat idea: first dump the image to a disk file, then pass the file name to PRINT.EXE via the DOS multiplex interrupt calls so that it can be printed in the background. Everything worked perfectly until some bytes with values 0x0D or 0x1B sneaked into the files. It turned out that PRINT.EXE was only equiped to handle non-binary files! (This was confirmed after checking the manuals.) An otherwise useful program is thus seriously handicapped. I wonder whether anyone has discovered anything undocumented that might allow me to get PRINT.EXE to do what I wanted? On a similar note, can anyone recommend any PD print spooler that can handle that much data? PD utility is probably the next best thing in terms of user's ease of access. Ya-Gui Wei
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