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Name: Rick Date: August 6, 2002 at 06:54:30 Pacific
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The only thing I know of is the dos copy >lpt or copy >prn commands, but it only prints ascii text and is used to output simple text files or the dir to a line printer. And even it uses a basic printer driver.
How would a program know how to format the output without a driver? How would a printer know what to do with the signal coming in to it without it being interpreted first by a driver?
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