>>>By the way, WHY do you need to do it this way? As mentioned, I have not done it this way in a lot of years, simply because there are other, better ways to do things.
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>>I totally agree, Tore. We still have old programs that run on dot-matrix printers. This problem has been around five years. :) The client gave us an amount of what has been wasted due to those extra form feeds and wanted it fixed.
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>I see. Anyway, my solution should work. In DOS days, and early Windows days, I used Set printer to nul: in stead of set printer to dump.dmp, but I don't think nul: is supported anymore. But you can give it a try.
You are right. Everytime when I try to send some output to NUL from cmd console everytime it creates NUL file grrrrr :o)
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