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Re: Is there an MS-DOS world interactive enviroment for Postscript??

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From: Steve Tynor
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1988 13:57
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In article <4914@dasys1.UUCP> cohen@dasys1.UUCP (David Cohen) writes:
>easier that runs for on a PC? Further, how exactly does one get the 
>interactive mode to work -- we have a laserwriter + printer hooked up to
>the AT and our prelimiary efforts didn't get us anywhere.

That's exactly my setup. I use Procomm (any communications program should
work.)  Once you have the comm port configured (parity, baud, etc.) just
type:
   executive<CR>
(lowercase!) and you'll be talking to the Laserwriter's interpretter.

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From: tynor@pyr.gatech.EDU (Steve Tynor)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Is there an MS-DOS world interactive enviroment for Postscript??
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Date: 14 Jun 88 13:57:16 GMT
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Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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