cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) (04/08/88)
I've been trying to figure out why the command:
COPY TEST.LST LPT1:
and
PRINT TEST.LST
produce different results on my printer -- and I finally figured it
out.
FLAMES ON HIGH
THE DAMN PRINT COMMAND DOES TAB REPLACEMENT WITH BLANKS!!! AND IT
EVEN DOES WHEN THE THE TAB CHARACTER IS PART OF A PRINTER COMMAND
SEQUENCE!!!!!!!!!!
The Epson has a command sequence ESC A n, where n controls the line
spacing. I was printing a document that sent ESC A 9, and the PRINT
command replaced it 8 blanks. There doesn't even some to be a way
to turn this off in PRINT.
Now I know why MS Word doesn't use the native PRINT command to spool
jobs -- they know better.
FLAMES OFF
Clayton E. Cramerjgray@toad.pilchuck.Data-IO.COM (Jerry Late Nite Gray) (04/13/88)
In article <2008@optilink.UUCP>, cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) flames: > > FLAMES ON HIGH > > THE DAMN PRINT COMMAND DOES TAB REPLACEMENT WITH BLANKS!!! AND IT > EVEN DOES WHEN THE THE TAB CHARACTER IS PART OF A PRINTER COMMAND > SEQUENCE!!!!!!!!!! > > FLAMES OFF Its a small world. I was just experiencing the same thing (though in my case it was using a plotter on the serial port). Does anyone know of any public domain or sharware print spoolers that don't have this problem? I will summarize responses to the net. --------------- Jerrold L. Gray UUCP:{ihnp4|caip|tektronix|ucbvax}!uw-beaver!tikal!pilchuck!jgray USNAIL: 10525 Willows Road N.E. /C-46 Redmond, Wa. 98052 (206) 881 - 6444 x470 Telex: 15-2167