On 20 Apr 2021 at 10:49, Ralf Quint wrote: > If you are talking laser printers, then that might exclude printers > that are Postscript only, as they require some software on the > computer side to translate plain text into a Postscript data stream > that the printer understands. Not such a big deal for simple text > files, I have written such a tool in the past in less than an > afternoon, but it is still an additional step to be taken, unless you > are printing from a DOS application that by itself is capable of > printing in Postscript (AFAIK, both Word for DOS and WordPerfect for > DOS come with Postscript printer drivers). > Bryan says he's got a Linux computer. I've never seen a build of "mpage" for MS-DOS, but I recall old howto's for lpd / printcap and using scripts as filters. I'd just set up an extra queue for plain ASCII input and use a2ps or mpage to convert on the fly into postscript.
> A printer that natively understand PCL3 ... will commonly understand plain > text. > thanks for correcting me, my memory is flakey :-) Frank _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
