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Re: Adobe PPD files

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From: Izumi Ohzawa
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 1989 02:54
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In article <17391@rpp386.cactus.org> woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) writes:

>persistant paramenters is not the issue here.  Any program that downloads a
>preamble and a resident portion has to exit to the server.  Examples, Microsoft
>word, Pagemaker, Ps executive, my Epson emulator, Diablo emulator, All of 

I am not sure how many of these applications really HAVE TO do
exitserver.

At leaset, Microsoft Word does it although it is unnecessary.
For versions 4 and 5 of MS Word, you can remove the exitserver
section from POSTSCRx.INI file, and the program still works fine.

I hate it when they do this.

Izumi Ohzawa
izumi@violet.berkeley.edu
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Date: 2 Dec 89 02:54:09 GMT
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