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>In article <4353@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>>You will need to send to output to a PostScript printer that has a parallel
>>port, and not a serial port.  Binary data cannot be sent through a serial
>>port, plain and simple.  Too many problems.  Things like Xmodem work because

A common reasone for the belief that you cannot send binary data over the
serial line is that the serial communications paramaters are by default
parity ignore. This means the high bit is getting stripped off. If you
set the parity setting to NONE then things will work fine. This is 
certainly easier on newer printers with LCD interfaces than on the
older printers with setsccbatch commands and a magic table of numbers,
but it is possible on MOST PS printers. I think some very early ones 
did not support parity none, like maybe only version 23 LaserWriters.

tj