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In article <1991May14.183903.24551@tcom.stc.co.uk>, pauld@tcom.stc.co.uk (Paul Davies) writes:
|> In article <w=2gt.d@rpi.edu> fechuny@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (felix chung yau) writes:

[ problems with WP -> SUN -> LW deleted ]

|> 
|> I basically also did what you did, WordPerfect (PC) --> SUN --> laserwriter, and
|> also had a problem. I can't remember whether some or none of the file was
|> printed but heres what I had to do to get it to work on our set up.
|> 
|> It was solved by simply deleting the additional white space characters in front
|> of the "%" sign on the very first line of the postscript file. The % must be the
|> very first charactacter for it to print ok on our SUN/lazerwriter set up.
|> 
|>                 Regards
|>                         Paul
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> --
|>  Paul Davies	Network Management Engineering Centre
|> 		STC Telecommunications, Oakleigh Road South
|> 		New Southgate, London N11 1HB
|>  		email: pauld@tcom.stc.co.uk  Tel: +44 (0)81 945 3605

The problem you are describing may well be caused by lpr's interpretation
of the file... if the %... is not on the first line, lpr will probobaly
not pick the file as postscript.  This can be overridden by using lpr -v
instead.  


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Richard Begg (richard@asis.unimelb.edu.au)
Programmer ASIS/ITS - University of Melbourne