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	"I have encountered a problem with postscript files generated
	by version 6.0a of Word for Windows (WFW). It is reproducible
	for ALL attempts to COPY an EPS file to my NEC Silentwriter 95,
	if the EPS file was created by version 6.0a of WFW."

Note that EPS files are meant to be included within PostScript files.
They are not themselves meant to be printable.  Sometimes they are,
sometimes they aren't.  Output from a Windows ap, sent via the
PostScript driver with "print to EPS file" checked, generally is.

	"The problem is that the EPS file prints correctly, however, it
	is followed by a blank page, then a page containing only
	Offending Command = timeout
	Error = nametype:timeout
	Stack ="

When you send a PostScript file to a printer over a serial or parallel
(Centronic) line, you must follow that file with control-D.  If you
don't, the printer has no way of knowing that the job has finished.
Eventually it declares an "iotimeout" (too much time has passed since
the last byte of input) and terminates the job with an error.  Because
your printer has enabled an error handler, you get the page you
describe.

This doesn't explain why your old EPS file didn't cause the error.
Your diff's show nothing that would account for this.  My guesses are
that either you printed the old EPS with the error handler disabled, or
there's a control-D lurking somewhere.

I don't think that reverting to the previous version of WfW is
necessary.  Just append control-D when you print the file: make a file
containing that single byte, and

	COPY/B myfile.EPS+CTLD.EPS LPT1:

  -=- Andrew Klossner  (andrew@frip.wv.tek.com)