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Article #26248MSDOS 3.3 PRINT Command In Need Of Toasting
From: Clayton Cramer
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 1988 20:30
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 1988 20:30
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I've been trying to figure out why the command:
COPY TEST.LST LPT1:
and
PRINT TEST.LST
produce different results on my printer -- and I finally figured it
out.
FLAMES ON HIGH
THE DAMN PRINT COMMAND DOES TAB REPLACEMENT WITH BLANKS!!! AND IT
EVEN DOES WHEN THE THE TAB CHARACTER IS PART OF A PRINTER COMMAND
SEQUENCE!!!!!!!!!!
The Epson has a command sequence ESC A n, where n controls the line
spacing. I was printing a document that sent ESC A 9, and the PRINT
command replaced it 8 blanks. There doesn't even some to be a way
to turn this off in PRINT.
Now I know why MS Word doesn't use the native PRINT command to spool
jobs -- they know better.
FLAMES OFF
Clayton E. Cramer
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!oliveb!pyramid!voder!kontron!optilink!cramer From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: MSDOS 3.3 PRINT Command In Need Of Toasting Message-ID: <2008@optilink.UUCP> Date: 7 Apr 88 20:30:49 GMT Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA Lines: 27