PRINT ZIPPED FILES DIRECTLY TO YOUR PRINTER 95LX 100LX

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PRINT ZIPPED FILES DIRECTLY TO YOUR PRINTER 95LX 100LX

I have been using Zipper (ON DISK ICON) with my HP 95LX and my DeskJet 500 to print out .ZIP text files by exploding them directly to the printer. This can save a lot of disk space (that I don't have to spare) over that required by exploding the file to disk and then printing. For example, 95BUDDY.TXT is a documentation file found in BUDDY.ZIP. To print this file out from my 95LX with a printer connected to the serial port, go to the DOS prompt and type:

Zipper -c buddy 95buddy.txt>com1

This unzips 95BUDDY.TXT from 95BUDDY.ZIP (ON DISK ICON) and sends it directly to the serial port, without creating 95BUDDY.TXT file on disk. If you put a filename after the >, 95BUDDY.TXT will be unzipped to that filename instead of the printer. Note: It took 20 minutes in draft mode to print out 95BUDDY .TXT.

If you have Pkunzip(ON DISK ICON) you could use the line:

Pkunzip -c buddy 95buddy.txt>com1

Richard T. Due

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