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georgew@tekig1.PEN.TEK.COM (George Walker) writes:

>I'm running Windows and I have a crummy printer, but I have access to
>another PC running DOS that has a laser printer.  If I do a "print to file"
>from my word processor under Windows, with the correct printer setup, and
>then take that file to the DOS machine, how do I print the file?  My DOS
>manual says that the DOS "print" command is only for text files.

>Thanks for any help.

Several posters have given _almost_ correct answers to this.  When you
get the file onto the computer with the "good" printer you should use

        copy <yourfilename> prn /b
           
Note the /b switch at the end!  If you leave it off then DOS will copy
bytes until it encounters a control-Z (end-of-file) character.  Since
the file might be in a binary format, this is not what you want.
(Believe me!  I speak from experience on this one.)  When you use /b
then DOS ignores control-Z's in the file, and copies the number of
bytes recorded in the filesize field in the directory entry for
<yourfilename>.