On 10-1594  09:11 Bruce Wilson said to Joel Ehrlich:
 BW> On 7 Oct 94 11:45am, Joel Ehrlich wrote to Bruce Wilson:
 JE> This case was different. Mitch wanted to do a table and save it
 JE> as ASCII not as a printer file. The problem is that you can't
 JE> save a table as ASCII. If he had indicated that he merely wanted
 JE> to be able to print a table from disk, I would have gone into
 JE> loading the appropriate printer driver and printing the file to
 JE> disk.
 BW> One of the nice things about doing this off-line is that one has the
 BW> time and ability to test hypotheses.  :-)
 BW> Notwithstanding that I would've *sworn* I'd done it at some time in
 BW> the past, I loaded WPDOS 5.1+ (which I just got last night at Office
 BW> Depot), edited both the Standard and DOS Text printers to send their
 BW> output to a file, loaded a table document, "printed" it, and checked
 BW> the result with a text editor.  You're right ... I got the text but
 BW> not the table lines.
Yes, but if you select a printer that can print graphic lines, then they 
_will_ be 'printed to disk'.  If you select a 'text' printer, they won't be.
TTFN  Rick Collins Ottawa, Canada.   Fidomail: 1:163/152
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