[net.micro.pc] speaking of print spoolers

cms%mit-pamela@sri-unix.UUCP (07/05/84)

From:  Chris Schmandt <cms@mit-pamela>

I am getting messed over by the Dos "print" command.
Specifically, it expands my tabs to spaces, assuming 8 space
tabs instead of the 5 that I know and love.  I've poked
around the print code in the debugger, found several
references to tabs, but apparently this is being done
by the printer driver (interrupt handler??) which reads
from the buffer that the print command transfers files
into for printing.

Interestingly enough, if you copy a file to prn:,
tabs are transmitted as tabs.  In foreground, of
course.

If anyone has any ideas about how to patch this one,
please let me know!

cms%pamela@MIT-XX.ARPA