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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: Help: Software is here, printer is there
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.232453.17042@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
- References: <1992Nov15.010641.28325@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:24:53 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- In article <1992Nov15.010641.28325@leland.Stanford.EDU> garygm@leland.Stanford.EDU (Gary Brainin) writes:
- >
- > I have an interesting problem. I'd like to print a couple of Word
- >for Windows files on my friend's laserprinter. However, she neither
- >has nor has room for both windows and WfW on her computer. So, rather
- >than moving hardware about, I figured I could just print the file,
- >redirecting the printer output to a file, then copy the file from the
- >disk to her laserprinter.
- >
- > However, when I did this, I got some rather peculiar output. Only
- >the first two lines of the file printed, and the rest of the page was
- >blank. (I also had to press the print button, since no EOP was sent,
- >but I can live with that.) She has an IBM Laserprinter E, and I'm
- >using the Windows IBM Laserprinter 4019 driver, which the manual
- >indicated would be correct.
- >
- > So does anybody know why I'm getting this odd output, and, more
- >importantly, how I can fix it?
-
- Try using the /b(inary) qualifier to the copy command. Trying to do
- the same thing to a HP IIP I got a similar result. Using /b cured it
- (and, I think, removed the necessity for a manual press of the
- FormFeed button); strangely enough I have *never* have to use /b when
- copying executable from disk to disk.
-
- Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
-