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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
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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
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