unix to nt file printing through generic text only printer

[aixadmin1]

I am using remote printing in aix to print to NT 4.0 tcp/ip printing. On the NT printer, I have setup a local port that is a file. The printer is a generic text only printer. When I print to it, the lines in the file when opened in any text editor show paragraph markers where the line is wrapped. I don't want them because it throughs my formatting off badly.

 

[Klick]

What is a "paragraph marker"?

 

[aixadmin1]

If you go into a program like word, you can click on the backwards P, you will then see where the ascii paragraph marker directs the app to begin a new paragraph.

 

[Norwich]

UNIX and MS use different character sequences for an End Of Line marker. It's probably notepad interpretting a UNIX EOL incorrectly.

Check the file with other editors - wordpad etc.

You may want to investigate 'SAMBA' if you want to get a UNIX box to use MS printer shares etc.

 

[Norwich]

Just want to add that even though the MS editor interprets the EOL incorrectly, a real printer - rather than 'send to file' - will probably be able to handle it.