Re: WordPerfect and Postscript

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From: Joel Kennedy
Date: Wed, 15 May 1991 16:50

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cjwein@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Chris J. Wein) writes:

>In article <w=2gt.d@rpi.edu> fechuny@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (felix chung yau) writes:
>>
>>	Hello.  I am having some problems printing a postscript file and was
>>wondering if anyone could help me.
>>	The problem is this: I generate a ps file in wordperfect (dos version)
>>by writing to disk.  Then I upload the ps file to a unix (sparc) machine which
>>has an apple laserwriter hook up to it.  I issue the print command and all I
I had very similar sounding problems when I first upgraded to v5.1.  After
very much frustration I found that the problem went away if I did the
file transfer in binary mode.  I suspect that the new version of 
WordPerfect make postscript lines that are to long and get truncated
in the transfer.  Good luck.
Joel Kennedy
kennedy@ee.umn.edu

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