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From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Sneaky printer driver
Message-ID: <12283@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 5 Jun 90 03:54:26 GMT
References: <1846.266b88f7@cc.nu.oz>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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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.
>

All you need is CMD, found on your workbench disk.  This utility
intercepts the output to the parallel or serial.device (your
choice) and puts it into a file in binary form.  Then you
can print it on some other amiga by copying it to PAR: or SER:

		andy
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