Re: [OT] Re: [PLUG] print to file in windows?

[Michael Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 11:31, Time wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 08:16:29PM -0400, Bill Jonas wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 20:16:29 -0400
> > From: Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com>
> > To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> > Subject: [OT] Re: [PLUG] print to file in windows?
> > Mail-Followup-To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> > 
> > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 08:05:08PM -0400, W. Chris Shank wrote:
> > > anyone know how to do this in win2k? i'd like to convert the ps to pdf.
> > 
> > Reaching back, I think there's some print driver that will print to the
> > FILE: device.  It may be that you can connect any printer driver to
> > FILE:, or that there's a special driver.  Try poking around in the print
> > setup.
> 
> Thinking back I remember being able to Print to File then from dos,
> doing the following:
> 
> cp filename lpt
> 
> Which would print that file 'filename'
> 
> ... but then its been a long while since I've done this.

Don't think that works from a DOS prompt in Win2K, since it's not really
the old DOS - it's a command line mode that's made to look like DOS.

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