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Use the Generic /Text Only printer driver, it will allow you to"print" a
text file without any embedded control characters
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"Com-Soft" <Com-Soft@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, can anyone help me how to set up a fake-printer that produces only the
> desired text to a textfile. When I try to set up a printer as textfile I
> must
> always select printer type and the driver sets up initial coding etc so
> the
> file is unreadable in Notepad.
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