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From: jimh@ultra.com (Jim Hurley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Does TOS convert CR to CR/LF on printing?
Message-ID: <1990Sep14.191236.372@ultra.com>
Date: 14 Sep 90 19:12:36 GMT
References: <1990Sep12.233632.3227@ultra.com> <2297@atari.UUCP>
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In <2297@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:

>jimh@ultra.com (Jim Hurley) writes:
>>I'm not sure but I think TOS is changing the CR to CR/LF's on the 
>>way to the printer.

>The send-a-character-to-a-printer part of TOS doesn't change CR to
>CRLF. However, the Desktop might: if you double-click the file, and say
>"Print" (rather than "Show" or "Cancel"), you might be seeing that. If
>you're running a program to send the file to the printer, you should
>blame that program.  (The Desktop is just a program in this sense,
>which is why you should blame *it* if that's what you're using.)

>============================================
>Opinions expressed above do not necessarily	-- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp.
>reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else.	  ...ames!atari!apratt

I solved the problem. I had been using Moshe Braner's 'more.ttp'
patched into the desktop.inf for so long that I forgot about the
desktop 'Show/Print..'. 

When I removed the more.ttp application line from desktop.inf
and used the desktop print feature, the file listed
correctly with overstrikes.

On further investigation with some popular shells, I used
BARREL (also from Moshe - gee, that guy writes some pretty useful
stuff, whatever happened to him?) to capture the print output
to a file and saw that all these shells had somewhere converted the
CR to CRLF. Perhaps there's something in the Atari Development
Libraries doing it? (assuming these shells were developed from that).

If I ever get the time for trivia I'll check to see if Laser C
or GNU CC have this property and report back.

Thanks, to all those who e-mailed me with suggestions.

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