Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] win32 printing

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From: neil lehrer <nlehrer@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 14:00:14 -0500
how does one post enhancement requests?  for example, in win32 printing to file,
if the fields were delimited by tabs it would be very easy to import data into
spreadsheet or db.

Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> > how does one configure printing in win32 8.20?
> 
> Printing to a printer isn't supported; nobody's written the code to do
> that on Windows.  (Well, it might work if your path includes a directory
> that contains a command that can read its standard input and print to a
> printer, along the lines of UNIX "lpr" or "lp".)
> 
> Printing to a file is supported, and appears, in the Windows version, to
> generate files with CR/LF at the ends of lines, and Notepad, at least on
> W2K SP1, appears to be able to read the files.

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