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Article #7045Re: How Can I Un-Do WordPerfect LaserWriter Set-Up?
From: Dean Okamura
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1988 16:25
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1988 16:25
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I want to thank those who responded to my original posting.
I did get one response through e-mail:
>From adobe!madison!byron@decwrl.dec.com Fri Apr 1 10:03:09 1988
>Message-Id: <8804011717.AA10611@madison.LOCAL>
>To: dean@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov
>Subject: setsccbatch operator
>Date: Fri, 01 Apr 88 09:17:24 PST
>
>I don't know anyting about WordPerfect, but the "7" you are passing
>the setsccbatch operator sets the printer into no parity and DTR flow
>control. Most UNIX boxes use XON/XOFF, and most PC's use DTR. The
>two are not compatible.
>
>It is usually better not to do the setsccbatch operator at all, since
>presumably the printer is set up to correctly talk to the host. However,
>if WordPerfect produces PostScript that has includes binary (non-ASCII,
>non-portable) characters, they have to do the no-parity/DTR flow control
>to get the binary data into the printer. In which case you are stuck.
>There will be no way to get the binary data down the serial line from a
>host that is talking XON/XOFF.
>
>Hope this helps...
>
>Mike Byron usenet: {sun|decwrl}!adobe!byron
>Adobe Systems Incorporated arpa: adobe!byron@decwrl.dec.com
>1585 Charleston Road, PO Box 7900
>Mountain View, CA 94309-7900
>
Does WordPerfect send "binary characters" (i.e., a PostScript prolog
followed by a WordPerfect document file) to the LaserWriter?
Please post because I will not receive e-mail after April 15.
--
Dean Okamura
Telos Consulting Services, 1370 N. Brea, #150, Fullerton, CA 92635.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!elroy!devvax!dean From: dean@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Dean Okamura) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: How Can I Un-Do WordPerfect LaserWriter Set-Up? Message-ID: <1793@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Date: 11 Apr 88 16:25:21 GMT Reply-To: dean@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Dean Okamura) Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA. Lines: 57