Windows is really fun, mostly. But one of the things I miss about UNIX (or the IBM 1401) is the handy way it writes to a line printer. No sissy graphics, no obsequious "Page n of m" ( unless you want to write a lot of extra code), just thousands of sturdy fixed width lines of ASCII characters. Gayle Manufacturing Company (The GM in all the names and labels below) is the steel fabricating company I work for. Most of the routine reports we generate are in line printer format, nothing fancy - just the numbers. Did you ever wonder why there isn't some easy way to simply iterate through your data and print a line at a time (nostalgic sigh)??
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