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Article #8363re: PS libraries (^D and all that)
From: Roger Hadgraft
Date: Mon, 01 May 1989 21:38
Date: Mon, 01 May 1989 21:38
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In article <22489@ccicpg.UUCP>, evans@ccicpg.UUCP ( Scott Evans) writes: > In article <98@snll-arpagw.UUCP>, paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) writes: > > This is purely a kludge to get around a limitation on the PC. It is > especially apparent when you see a ^D not only at the end of a Postscript > file but also at the beginning!!! > > The postscript printer that is hooked up to our Unix system does not like the > ^D at the beginning of the file and so we have to filter all the files that > come from a PC before they can be printed. My experience has been exactly the opposite. Our PS printers connected to our terminal network won't print PS files WITHOUT a ^D at the start! -- Roger Hadgraft | hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au@munnari.oz Lecturer in Civil Engineering | phone: +61 3 565 4983 Monash University | fax: +61 3 565 3409 Clayton, Vic. 3168. Australia. |
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!pprg.unm.edu!hc!lll-winken!uunet!munnari!murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!bruce!monu1!vaxc!cie590l From: hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au (Roger Hadgraft) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: re: PS libraries (^D and all that) Message-ID: <3993@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> Date: 1 May 89 21:38:42 GMT References: <2994@daisy.UUCP> <775@adobe.UUCP> <8751@polya.Stanford.EDU> <98@snll-arpagw.UUCP> <22489@ccicpg.UUCP> Sender: cie590l@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Hadgraft) Organization: Civil Engineering, Monash University, Australia Lines: 18