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In article <1992Dec10.162528.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>,
cctr132@csc.canterbury.ac.nz wrote:

> We are trying to set up a NetWare printer queue using a remote print-
> server PC, a NetWare 3.11 server, NetWare for Macintosh, an HP LJ III
> with the latest HP PS cartridge (PS Plus ?), so Mac and PC users can
> print through the same queue.

I presume you are using the parallel port?

> The problem is that the queue works fine for jobs sent in every possible
> manner from the PC's, but the Mac originated jobs barf with no PS errors
> or anything.

From the rest of what you say, I can think of two things that might
cause this behavior, although there are probably others:

    1.) Out-of-band characters. If the file contains characters
        with the high bit on, the transmission over a serial line
        set up for 7-bit transmission might be a problem. Alternatively,
        if it includes certain control characters, including ^C, ^D, ^Q,
        ^S, and ^T, everything will work fine on Appletalk, but these
        characters will be separately parsed on serial or parallel. This
        would probably cause a PostScript error, which would be silently
        swallowed if you are on the parallel port.

    2.) Line truncation: The Mac uses ^M to terminate a line, while the
        PC uses ^M^J. If the Netware, the spooler, or some other PC
        software component is reading lines of data, yours may be
        getting chopped by the intermediate steps.

Have you tried downloading an error handler? This might catch the
error and print a page with some cryptic but possibly helpful info.
Also, can you tell mee what kind of jobs these are? One page graphics,
ten page documents? What else?

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