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From: matth@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Matthew Hannigan)
Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Sneaky printer driver
Summary: use 'CMD' on WB1.3
Message-ID: <1990Jun5.034333.25916@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>
Date: 5 Jun 90 03:43:33 GMT
References: <1846.266b88f7@cc.nu.oz>
Reply-To: matth@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Matthew Hannigan)
Organization: University Computing Service, Uni. of Sydney, Australia.
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In article <1846.266b88f7@cc.nu.oz> c8748411@cc.nu.oz writes:
>
>	What I want to do is to have a printer driver that has all the 
>information sent to it from whatever package and then, rather than do all
>the tricky convert-to-specific-printer stuff, it saves it all as ascii file.
>That way I can do my work, print it out, divert the output onto disk, get that
>file to my mate who, say, might have a very lovely colour printer (the bastard)
>and he can print my file out from CLI.
>	Sounds smashing what?

Certainly does. Good news is that such a program is on the 1.3 workbench
disk -- called CMD. There is a version on some fish disk as well,
if you don't have WB1.3.

	-Matt