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   Does anyone have a program that can tell if a file is not postscript
   and put it in postscript(assuming the original file was ascii). If not
   is just checking for %! good enough to ensure a postscript file?

   thanks. 

   Rob Montjoy                   		- Rob.Montjoy@UC.Edu
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   University of Cincinnati      		- montjoy@babbage.ece.uc.edu
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I have just plowed through about 30 messages about the PS format etc, yet
no one has attempted to answer the question or at least posted anything.
So here is a bit of an answer, it may not be completely correct but it
works for me (so far).  

To translate some text to ps there are a good number of PD things that you
can get from uunet.uu.net in the comp.sources.{misc,unix} archives or you
can buy the transcript software(I don't remember who makes it off hand but
I could dig it up).  Here is a bit of a shell hack which has always been
able to distinguish(sp?) .ps files for me:


set PS = `grep -n "%\\!" $k | awk '{print substr($1,1,4)}'`

if ($PS =~ "1:%\!") then
        set POSTSCRIPT = "yes"
else
        set POSTSCRIPT = "no"
endif


and if anyone see something that will cause it to break please let me know.


--->  Phil


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