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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Printing problem
Message-ID: <192@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jun 88 20:42:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: optilink.192
References: <45900131@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
Lines: 19
Summary: Microsoft Should Pay Attention To This Request

In article <45900131@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>, mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> 
> I have just gotten Tex to work on my PS/2 Model 80, and have come across
> a problem. The output files destined for my HP LaserJet II appear to
> contain all 256 possible bytes. The "print" command and the ordinary
> "copy file.jep prn:" commands refuse to print all of the file. It
> worked with "copy /b file.jep prn:" , but that doesn't spool the output
> like print does. Is it possible to get print to work? I expected to find
> a corresponding /b option there but the manual doesn't mention it.
> Anybody know about a fix for this?
> Doug McDonald

I posted a similar problem a while back where PRINT expands TAB characters
to blanks -- even if the TAB is part of a control sequence that shouldn't
be expanded.  I sure wish Microsoft would remember to put a /B option in 
the PRINT command in the next release of DOS.


Clayton E. Cramer