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From: CDCKAB%EMUVM1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu ( Karl Brendel)
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Subject: (R)printing graphics with TPas (was HELP with turbo pascal!!?!)
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Date: 19 Sep 90 03:43:29 GMT
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In article <7833@aggie.ucdavis.edu>, usenet@aggie.ucdavis.edu
  (Val Luck) writes:

>I am having difficult printing graphics in turbo pascal 4(ibm)  DOS
>wants to interpret the graphics and ends up messing up the output.  Is
>there some way I can turn this off?  Writing to "lst" doesn't work
>either.  I can only write to a file and then from dos copy the file to
>prn.  Any suggestions?

You need to investigate DOS function $44. (I.e., you'll need to do a
call to procedure MS-DOS with regs.ax := $44.) You need to associate the
printer with a text file (such as PRN or LPT1) and use function $44 to
place that file into "raw mode".

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