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Re: remote postscript printing problem

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From: Andrew Little
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 12:54
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In article <2039@deadmin.ucsd.edu> lu@topcad.ucsd.edu (George Lu) writes:
>
>Hello there,
>
>I installed TCP/IP 1.2.1 on our 386 running OS/2.

...lpr stuff deleted

>I printed a MS Word document, only to get a few pages of postcript
>code from that printer.  The source of the problem are the control-D
>at the beginning of the postcript file.

I have this problem as well, but only when printing postscript from
Win/OS2.  If I use an OS/2 app, like PM Chart, the postscript is fine.
Is there a problem in the Win/OS2 driver?  I haven't tried installing
a "regular" windows 3.0 postscript driver yet.  BTW, I don't have
TCP/IP yet, and always print to a file and then move it up to my Unix
system to print.  Gives me the opportunity to tweak the postscript
code by hand tho :-).

>One workaround is to print to a file, edit out the control-D, then lpr
>from an OS/2 command window, but that does not seem like an elegant
>solution.  Is there a way to strip those control-D's?

I'll let you know if I find any solution

Andy Little                BALR Corporation
andy@balr.com              Software Solutions in Real Time
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Subject: Re: remote postscript printing problem
Message-ID: <1992Aug20.125445.11985@balr.com>
Keywords: postscript OS/2 TCP/IP
Organization: BALR Corporation, Oak Brook, Illinois.
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 12:54:45 GMT
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