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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Printer blues
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Date: 1 Dec 88 14:49:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Dec  1 08:49:00 1988


To send binary files to a printer, you can do

copy /b filename.ext prn:

I am not sure about the following, but it agrees with my tests:
the problem is in MS-DOS, not languages. It is NOT in the bios,
as it is possible to write a C program with bios calls to do the
copy.

I still want to be able to PRINT using the MS-DOS print command,
binary files. Anybody Know how?

Doug McDonald