Path: utzoo!censor!geac!yunexus!hades!torsqnt!tmsoft!beaudin!john From: john@beaudin.UUCP (John Beaudin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: sco unix 3.2 - printing binary data query (clarification) Message-ID: <1362@beaudin.UUCP> Date: 5 Jul 90 13:58:11 GMT References: <1358@beaudin.UUCP> <268e3558-675.1comp.unix.i386-1@vpnet.chi.il.us> Lines: 57 hb@vpnet.chi.il.us (hank barta) writes: >| >| When I submit a certain file containing non-textual data for printing >| on a dot matrix printer, some operating system entity apparently filters >| out some of the bytes. >How are you submitting this to the printer? I use the print spooler >(for which the setup seems to be one of the more challenging aspects >in Unix) and pass it nroff output which includes various control >codes. I tried lp & cat, to no avail. My file contains characters (among others) with the 8th bit on. Here's a uuencoded sample (for an Epson LQ-850 printer) of the address label I want to print: ----cut here ---- begin 644 label M"AM%&S0;> $;:P$;=S$;5S$@(" @(" @(" @(" ;1ALU&W