Re: Mac files to Postscript printer

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From: Jeff R Hallett
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1987 11:57

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In article <880@hao.UCAR.EDU> bill@hao.UCAR.EDU (Bill Roberts) writes:
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>  I was wondering if anyone knows how to transfer a file from a Mac to a 
>Postscript printer tied into an Ethernet.  I've got macget and macput (I don't
>recall which one does the uploading).  I can upload a Mac file to UNIX and find
>it broken down into three components: .rsrc, .info, .data.
>  It seems like it ought to be possible to recombine the forks and build a
>Mac file in the UNIX environment and send that Mac file to a Postscript Laser
>printer.

Don't really need to.  If you use 'macget -u' to upload, it will not
break the file into the three "forks".  Your PostScript file is ASCII
anyway, so this doesn't matter.


Jeffrey A. Hallett               (hallett@ge-crd.arpa   hallett@desdemona.uucp)
Software Technology Program
General Electric Corporate Research and Development

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