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	A colleague has an original Apple LaserWriter (PostScript) connected to 
a 486 clone running DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1.  We are able to print files from 
various Windows word processors such as Word for Windows 2.0 and Scientific 
Word.  If I turn off "Include Header" in the Advanced Printer Settings nothing 
prints except for a page saying that the Windows PS header is not loaded.  This 
makes some assume that the Windows PS header is functionally equivalent to the 
AppleDict that  Macintosh LaserWriter driver.

	However attempts to print regular PostScript files (such as those 
created by dvips) to this printer from the DOS command line fail.  I've tried 
various combinations of 
	copy filename.ps com2:
	type filename.ps com2:
and even using Procomm Plus to send the file to the port as raw ASCII.  In all 
cases nothin prints.  I've checked the port settings with what's used in the 
Windows control panel so I'm reasonable sure my settings (8-N-1,p) and my port 
(com2) are correct.  I strongly suspect the problem is that the Apple 
LaserWriter needs a special header on its PostScript files that Windows and the 
MacOS provide, but dvips doesn't.

	I tried printing the header file to disk and then embedding it in a 
postscript document, but that failed.  I may well not have put it in exactly 
the right place or removed some commands in the original document that were 
now redundant.
I wanted to try formatting the ASCII postscript file with the PostScript 
style in Word like I can do in Word 4.0 on my Mac, but I couldn't find any 
PostScript style in Win Word.

	Finally I tried a program called PSExecutive from QMS, version 1.0, 
circa 1988 whicgh seemed to be a rough DOS equivalent to Apple's LaserWriter 
Utility.  The program hung frequently, possibly becuase of incompatibility with 
the Super-VGA monitor. (The manual claimed it was not fully compatible with VGA 
and was written before SuperVGA existed.)

  Can anybody offer suggestions about how I might succeed in printing raw 
postscript files on this printer?  A DOS solution would be preferred but a 
Windows solution would be acceptable.

Elliotte Rusty Harold		Department of Applied Mathematics
elharo@m.njit.edu		New Jersey Institute of Technology
erh0362@tesla.njit.edu		Newark, NJ 07103