Dear,
"COPY FILENAME.EXT PRN" and "TYPE FILENAME.EXT > LPT1" do have the same effect
: they send FILENAME.EXT to the printer, "as is".
Now, about the font used, you have to select the font needed directly on the
printer.
Why? Because while a word processor allows you to format a document by
selecting a beautiful font and sending its code to the printer, when sending a
text file directly to the printer you don't specify a font, so the default
printer font is used. And obviously the current one doesn't satisfy you.
So you have to configure your printer (through the menus for recent printers,
or by pressing a combination of keys when starting the printer for older
printers) and select the right font to be used when you send files directly to
the printer (like with "COPY ... PRN" or "TYPE ... > LPT1").
Enjoy!
-----Original Message-----
From: Ting(_dot_)Cai(_at_)TeraBeam(_dot_)com
[mailto:Ting(_dot_)Cai(_at_)TeraBeam(_dot_)com]
I tried COPY draft-xxx-yyy-NN.txt PRN, it has the same effect as 'type
draft-xxx-yyy-NN.txt > LPT1' on Windows 2000, that is, the page break occurs at
the right place, but a larger font was used and some text on the right edge
were cut off.
I assume the ASCII standard for pagination is ^L and the document I am playing
does have the right character.
Thanks for your help.
Ting
-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Moore [ mailto:moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu
<mailto:moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> ]
I have a question on how to print Internet Draft with the right pagination on
Windows machine.
there are two sub-classes of this problem:
1. internet-drafts with correct pagination won't print correctly on Windows
because Windows doesn't support printing ASCII documents.
if you install DOS printing support for your printer, you might be able
to get such documents to print by opening a DOS window and typing
COPY draft-xxx-yyy-NN.txt PRN
I don't know whether this works in recent versions of Windows because
I don't use Windows.
Out of sympathy for Windows users, I set up the RFCs in PDF web page
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~moore/RFC-PDF/
<http://www.cs.utk.edu/~moore/RFC-PDF/>
I suppose I could do something similar for Internet-Drafts.
Of course the best solution is to use operating systems that support
open standards like ASCII.
2. internet-drafts with incorrect pagination
many people produce internet drafts with incorrect pagination or no
pagination. these documents don't print correctly on *any* system.
Keith