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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!demon!news.demon.co.uk!polo!john From: john@polo.demon.co.uk (John Winters) Subject: Printing without filters Organization: Wallingford Message-ID: <D8uE8M.4t4@polo.demon.co.uk> Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 20:29:09 GMT Lines: 11 Can anyone offer me any advice on how to get BSD Unix to print files without filtering them in any way please? That is, given a file on my Unix system which already contains data specifically processed to drive a chosen printer, how do I get the spooling mechanism to send it the printer without scrambling it en-route? What I have are files produced by packages which want to drive the printer in a graphics mode, but then lpr seems to reject them on the grounds they have control characters in them. TIA, John