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In <BtzFH9.G3J@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> yawei@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (~{QG9p~}) writes:


>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.

If you're willing to not use the computer while the image is printing
you can try "COPY filename LPT1 /B".  This will "copy" the file to
the printer and it won't choke on the odd values because the "/B"
copies in binary mode instead of text mode.

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