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In <16566@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Jason Yan (can cook writes:
>   Does anyone know of or have a postscript program that will
>allow the printing of regular ascii files on a HP laserjet II with
>a postscript cartridge?  I asked in an earlier message, but I didn't
>make it clear on what I needed.
>...

Many PostScript printers need a Ctrl-D character between jobs to
recognize end-of-job and start printing.  You need three things:

1. Your existing PostScript line printer emulater program (e.g. the
   one from the Adobe Green Book), let's call it "lpr.ps".

2. A file called CTLD.PS that you can create with your editor or
   word processor: its only contents should be a Ctrl-D character

3. A simple batch file like the following (assuming that by "IBM"
   you mean "IBM compatible PC"):

@echo off
cd \ps           (assuming that's the directory you use)
copy lpr.ps+ %1 +ctld.ps lpt1: >nul

   if you call the batch file lpr.bat, it would be invoked like:

lpr whatever.lst

   to print the file "whatever.lst" on a printer attached to LPT1

Ulrich Boche, IBM Germany FSC Large Systems
Disclaimer: This posting represents my own views, not those of IBM