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Article #4982Re: How can I tell if a file is "postscript"
From: Glenn Reid
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1991 06:30
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1991 06:30
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In article <1460@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
> Two of us looked at the TranScript spooler and neither of us saw
> anything that the filters did that made it run enscript (or whatever)
> to turn text into PostScript. So, that left the printer doing the
> work. But, if the printer doesn't do the work, then what piece of
> TranScript is doing the work?
The "pscomm" filter looks for this flag, and if it's not there,
it filters the file through "pstext", which is a simplistic version of
"enscript".
Read the man page for "pscomm" for more details. I would quote it
here, but it's copyrighted, and would bore too many people, besides :)
--
Glenn Reid RightBrain Software
glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us NeXT/PostScript developers
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