Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!marque!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!dutrun!dutesta!mol From: mol@dutesta.UUCP (Marcel J.E. Mol) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: IBM AIX Message-ID: <1197@dutesta.UUCP> Date: 18 Sep 88 13:52:40 GMT References: <379@sobeco.UUCP> Organization: Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Lines: 25 From article <379@sobeco.UUCP>, by mfp@sobeco.UUCP (Mark F. Proudman): > .... As I believe someone has pointed > out earlier, much software depends on the ability to send to a device > a binary stream of bytes. This is difficult under AIX. (on the RT at any > rate). > > Mark Proudman uunet!attcan!sobeco!mfp > (514) 878 9090 > "It is agreed that the ice is thin here" - K&R. As far as I know, "print" has a -plot option to send binary data to a printer. (Although I found some strange behaviour: Printing TeX output on a laserprinter (a 3812), needs the -plot option according to the docs. But that didn't work properly. When I removed the -plot option, printing TeX output works fine.) Marcel -- ########################################################################## Marcel Mol | UUCP: ..!dutesta!mol Delft Univ. of Tech. | BITNET: ETSTMOL@HDETUD1 Fac. of Elec. Eng. "They couldn't think of a number, Delft so they gave me a name" The Netherlands -- Rupert Hine