Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:32540 comp.periphs:1992
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hp-sdd!andrea
From: andrea@hp-sdd.hp.com (Andrea K. Frankel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Dot-matrix Graphics on Various Printers
Keywords: dot-matrix graphics, NEC Pinwriter, Diconix, Epson, IBM QuietWriter
Message-ID: <2328@hp-sdd.hp.com>
Date: 2 Aug 89 19:19:46 GMT
References: <13208@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: andrea@hp-sdd.UUCP (Andrea K. Frankel)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, San Diego Division
Lines: 19

In article <13208@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> scs@adam.pika.mit.edu (Steve Summit) writes:
>One other question, in case I've reached any PC printer graphics
>gurus: is there a decent solution to what I call the bitmap 26
>problem?  You can't send an ASCII 26 (0x1A) to device PRN,
>because it's a control-Z, and DOS, in its infinite wisdom, looks
>for it going by and, in the process of thinking it's an end-of-
>file, deletes it and (apparently) the following character.  

Simple solution:  don't use print, use "copy /b foo > lpt1:" and DOS
will know to keep its mitts off of your bits.


Andrea Frankel, Hewlett-Packard (San Diego Division) (619) 592-4664
	"wake now!  Discover that you are the song that the morning brings..."
______________________________________________________________________________
UUCP     : {hplabs|nosc|hpfcla|ucsd}!hp-sdd!andrea 
Internet : andrea%hp-sdd@hp-sde.sde.hp.com (or @nosc.mil, @ucsd.edu)
CSNET    : andrea%hp-sdd@hplabs.csnet
USnail   : 16399 W. Bernardo Drive, San Diego CA 92127-1899 USA