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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: 3.3 print command on binary files?
Message-ID: <1990Sep8.171421.29626@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 8 Sep 90 17:14:21 GMT
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In article <958@massey.ac.nz> ABishop@massey.ac.nz (A.G. Bishop) writes:
>>
>>>>I often print large graphics files to my mx80 style printer.
>>>>I would like to use the MSDOS 3.3 print command to spool them...
>>
>>[A.G. Bishop responds by telling him to use COPY.]
>>
>>You seem to have missed the point.  Mr. Ward wants to *SPOOL* the graphics
>>files...
>
>Apologies, much chastened.  I can offer nothing helpful, I'm afraid.
>
>It occurs to me, though, that this may be an incidence of "better not at
>all than badly" since I feel sure that there would be PD or sh/ware print
>spoolers if Dos did not have Print.
>
>I often send output to a file then print it later.  I, too am surprised
>that this problem has not come up before.
>
There is a program on simtel20 that does spool binary files. I believe 
it was called dmp200 or something like that. It DOES exist and
works fine.

Doug MCDonald