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Re: MSDOS 3.3 PRINT Command In Need Of Toasting

#26348
From: Jerry Late Nite Gray
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1988 19:12
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In article <2008@optilink.UUCP>, cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) flames:
> 
> 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!!!!!!!!!!
> 
> FLAMES OFF

Its a small world.  I was just experiencing the same thing (though in my
case it was using a plotter on the serial port).

Does anyone know of any public domain or sharware  print spoolers that
don't have this problem? 

I will summarize responses to the net.



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From: jgray@toad.pilchuck.Data-IO.COM (Jerry Late Nite Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MSDOS 3.3 PRINT Command In Need Of Toasting
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Date: 12 Apr 88 19:12:18 GMT
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Summary: request for simple spooler