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Re: Amazing program....

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From: Randal L. Schwartz Stonehenge
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1989 17:53
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In article <3258@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>, richard@uhccux (Richard Foulk) writes:
| It doesn't seem to work for me.  I followed the directions under
| How to use:/Printers: but the stuff just gets printed instead
| of being sent to my log file.  I've tried all kinds of input.
| 
| This is on a QMS-PS800-II, version 47.0A.
| 
| Sometimes I get a little something in the log file, like this:
| ------------------
| umentFonts:
| %%EOF
| ------------------
| Yes the first half of "Document" was cut off.  But it still
| just gets printed.  My log mechanism works flawlessly with
| other output, large or small.

I use Transcript under Ultrix 2.0 (I think), and have gotten similar
results.  Basically, the log-file contains *almost* everything, but
any line that (was expected to) begin

  %%XYZ...

gets edited to

  %%YZ...

making the resulting file re-laserable but non-conforming.  (Yes, the
first character after the double percent disappears... not one of the
percents, meaning I have to muck with the source to print some extra
garbage to get the right thing... yuck.)

I was also surprised when the first 'distilling' also *prints* the
document...  this wasn't clear from your documentation (I was
expecting a simple translation pass, not a print).

Other than that, it worked. :-)
-- 
Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095
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From: merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge)
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Subject: Re: Amazing program....
Summary: won't work with Transcript and ULTRIX
Keywords: distillery
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Date: 15 Feb 89 17:53:18 GMT
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