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Re: Help with .tar & .ps files with Mac!

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From: Glenn Carnagey
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:06
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In article <1993Jan15.210921.12916@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com> ckr2196@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com (Caryn K. Roberts) writes:
>From article <1993Jan12.170530.10782@midway.uchicago.edu>, by scb1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Samuel C. Blackman):
>> I've got a bit of a problem, which I've been trying to solve on my own to
>> no avail, so I appeal to the wisdom of the net ...
>> 
>> I'm trying to get ahold of a copy of "Zen & the Art of Internet".  Simple
>> enough, right?  Well it seems that I can only find it either in .tar format
.....
>> 
>> So now I ask you.  How do I print a copy of Zen & the Art of Internet onto
>> paper?  How do I convert .tar files to Mac text files, or .ps files to 
>> files which my piddly little Mac can interpret? 

If you're using MS Word, there is a builtin postscript "style".  Just
select the entire document and apply the style.  If it's the first
time you've ever used the style, it won't show up in the list of
styles in the box, so you type in the name like it's a new style.
Afterwards it will show in the list.  Otherwise MS Word thinks it's
just another document.  Another way to do this on the Unix side is to
set the PRINTER variable to one of the public laserwriters, and use a
postscript filter like ps, gs, or ts, like: lpr -Pps 'document'.  

>There are two solutions. StuffIt Deluxe 3.04 will unTAR. Or if you prefer
>the .ps file you _download_ that file to your postscript printer. Most
>PS printers come with a utility to download a file to the printer.

Laser Font Utility is one such utility, but I'm not sure the public
machines have such utilities.

Pax ex machina,
Glenn
g-carnagey@uchicago.edu
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Subject: Re: Help with .tar & .ps files with Mac!
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