According to Jeff Kell:
>
> On Thu, 26 Oct 1995 07:50:26 +1000 Jim Wowchuk said:
> >At 04:56 PM 25/10/95 +0200, SoftLink wrote:
> >>FILE t;dev=lp;rec=128,1,b
> >                         ^ you've specified a byte stream, not binary
> >:file t;dev=lp;rec=128,1,f,binary
>
> In this, and in another suggestion or two, we're missing the point.  He has
> a raw binary PCL file to send to a printer.  Every HP utility that I know
> of (print/fcopy/etc) will do a record-oriented transfer.  In such cases,
> even with binary designations, each record will be written followed by at
> least a carriage return/linefeed - and this <cr><lf> will interrupt the PCL
> data stream.
>
> The only solution I know of is either third party, or else write your own
[snip]
 
FWIW
The Formation software (from Unison - was Tymlabs) contains such a utility
called LPRINT.
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