At 03:11 PM 2/19/2008, you wrote:
>From: "scan reg"
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>We send big files of ascii characters to a printer.
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>The ascii must arrive at the printer totally virginal, no page breaks, margins, headers/footers, line numbers, etc.
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>Can Vedit do this?
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>The files might be 1000 (one thou) lines long, with each line maybe 100 characters.
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>Seems that some text editors throw in stuff even if margins are zero and headers/footers are turned off.
The Windows version of VEDIT comes "close" if you configure your printer in Windows as a "Generic text" printer. The Windows driver still tends to translate any special control chars (e.g. to turn a generic printer's bold on/off, etc.)
The DOS version of VEDIT certainly can do this, but the DOS version does not run well in Windows 2000/XP/Vista.
If your printer is local and configure to e.g. LPT1:, from a DOS box you can simply copy the file to LPT1:. E.g.
copy file001.prn lpt1:
Ted.
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