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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.

Assuming that you want to print file XYZ on drive A:

	Copy /b A:XYZ PRN
or
	copy /b A:XYZ lpt1:

The /b is to *force* the copy to be binary. Remember, as far as DOS
is concerned the following are *all* just odd files:
	NUL
	CON
	PRN
	AUX
	COM1
	COM2
	COM3
	COM4
	LPT1
	LPT2
	LPT3

Some can't be read from, they can all be written to. 
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