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Print jobs that are not ASCII text files should be printed as Byte Stream files. ASCII text files may be printed as Text files. The difference between these two types is whether tab conversion is enabled.
Tab conversion means that as a job is printed, a tab character is replaced by a specified number of spaces. Tab conversion takes place if File contents is set to Text in the print job configuration or if Tabs is set in the CAPTURE command.
If the jobs to be printed are ASCII text files, the File contents should be set to Text. Tab size can then be set to 1 through 18. This is the number of spaces that will be substituted for each full tab that is encountered. This is set in the CAPTURE command using the T= parameter.
For example, to set the tab conversion to 6 spaces, the command is as follows:
CAPTURE T=6
Any job that is not an ASCII text file should be printed with File contents set to Byte Stream. This is because tab conversion usually causes graphics to be printed incorrectly. Text from most word processors is printed as graphics.
Byte Stream is the default setting. It can be manually set in the CAPTURE command using the NT (No Tabs) parameter. The command is as follow:
CAPTURE NT
To determine if a file is an ASCII text file, the DOS TYPE command can be used to look at it. For example, the syntax for checking the AUTOEXEC.BAT file is as follows:
TYPE AUTOEXEC.BAT
If the file can be read properly when it is displayed, it is probably an ASCII text file.
Another way to determine this is to try printing the file. If the file contains tabs, yet prints out legibly and in the proper format, it is an ASCII text file.
If you have determined that the job is text, yet it will not print properly with File contents: Text (or T=1 through 18 in the CAPTURE command), change the setting to File contents: Byte Stream (or NT in the CAPTURE command.)
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