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From: davis@rm1.UUCP (Gary A. Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: using files in C on the IBM PC
Keywords: raw cooked binary
Message-ID: <114@rm1.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jun 89 01:18:30 GMT
Organization: Racal-Milgo, Ft. Lauderdale, Fl.
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This is in response to an article about ascii/binary and raw/cooked
I/O from Tom Almy. 

At then end, Tom
mentioned that he always issued the DOS calls directly to set raw
mode (for the printer). What commands are these? I am sort of new to
the IBM PC world. I have a graphics file to print generated by a
filter and it happens to contain bit codes that happen to look like
CR/LFs and ^Zs. I can print the file ok by COPY/B FILE PRN (I think
this is the command I used). It fails due to a ^Z byte using the PRINT
FILE command. I would like to use the spooler via the PRINT but is
there a binary option? The filter creates the file but I think there
are problems redirecting it to the printer. The filter does open the
output (stdout) as binary (via setmode()) and is getting created ok
when it is a disk file, but not when redirected as in:

	filter < input.fil > PRN

Any ideas on this? Thanks...

Gary
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  Gary A. Davis
  Racal-Milgo, P.O. Box 407044, Fort Lauderdale, Fl 33340, (305) 476-4393

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