Interpreting Carriage Returns and Line Feeds

The options Assume Binary and Map Newline to CR+LF For Binary Files in the Solstice File And Printer Sharing Properties dialog box work together.

If you select both options, the printer driver interprets the carriage returns and line feeds as shown in Table 5-6.

Table 5-6 Printer Driver Interpretation of Carriage Returns and Line Feeds

If the binary file contains...	The printer does the following...
Carriage returns followed by line feeds.	Starts a new line and adds a blank line.
Carriage returns only	Starts a new line and starts printing from the left margin.
Linefeeds only	Adds a blank line and continues printing.