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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: WordPerfect - two simple questions
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Date: 8 Sep 89 13:52:01 GMT
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Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
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In article <1632@cod.NOSC.MIL> heflin@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (Greg R. Heflin) writes:
>In article <4656@lindy.Stanford.EDU> FA.CAS@forsythe.stanford.edu (C. A. Smith) writes:
[concerning WordPerfect 5.0]
>>1). Can one redirect printer output to a file using program commands ?

>Answer to part 1)  Yes, sort of.
>You can if you only want text and drawn lines.
>But it doesn't work if you use imported graphic pictures.

Well I do it all the time with docs which include graphic pictures.  Perhaps
your problem is that you print with "copy file prn" rather than
"copy /b file prn" and are trashing the graphic information.

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
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