I am running perl in a DOS window on a PC running Windows ME. The following code displays on the CRT in the font and size called out when script was invoked (perl program.pl -font "Courier 16"): 
 
foreach $play (@ranked) {
    if (($play->{track} ne '') && ($play->{track} ne 0)){
        $title = pack("A32", "$play->{title}");
        $artist = pack("A32", "$play->{artist}");
        $album = $play->{album};
        $track = $play->{track};
        if(length($track) == 1){
            $track = '0'.$track;
        }
        $listbox->insert('end',                          
             "$title$artist$play->{album}-$track");
    }
}

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When I need to put the same information to a file, I use: 
open(REPORT, ">report.dat") || die("Can't open output file");
@ranked = sort by_artist @hash;
foreach $play (@ranked) {
    if($play->{track} != 0) {
        $title = $play->{title};
        $artist = $play->{artist};
        $album = $play->{album};
        $track = $play->{track};
        if(length($track) == 1){
            $track = '0'.$track;
        }       
        write REPORT;
    }
}
close(REPORT);

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When I examine the file report.dat, it contains text only. How do I generate a file containing text and fonts, size, etc.? or How can I send this to the local printer along with font, size, etc.?

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