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Article #8311Re: PS libraries
From: Scott Evans
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1989 19:34
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1989 19:34
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In article <98@snll-arpagw.UUCP>, paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) writes: > Thus it appears to me that in a PC world where access to the serial > device is easy and transparent, the only option is for the application > program to append a ^D to the end of the PostScript output. This > guarantees that the file will be handled properly whether it is > redirected to the serial device, or later copied to it. > > Can we help it if the PC is a "brain-dead" kind of machine and has no other way telling when it gets to an "end of file"???? 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.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!rochester!rit!cci632!ccicpg!evans From: evans@ccicpg.UUCP ( Scott Evans) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: PS libraries Message-ID: <22489@ccicpg.UUCP> Date: 27 Apr 89 19:34:18 GMT References: <2994@daisy.UUCP> <775@adobe.UUCP> <8751@polya.Stanford.EDU> <98@snll-arpagw.UUCP> Organization: Computer Consoles Inc. (CPD), Irvine, CA. Lines: 18