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Re: Printing Postscipt Files on Unix

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From: Christopher Silverberg
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1990 19:32
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In article <1524@blackbird.afit.af.mil> rpugh@galaxy.afit.af.mil (Robert D. Pugh) writes:
>macps is available at sumex in the info-mac.unix directory.  I set it
>up here and you'd be surprized how many Mac users I met.  I agree with
>the person from ATT that if you follow the directions you should have
>no trouble setting it up.

Unfortunately, we tried on our system, and the most we ever got were blank
pages out of the Apple Laserwriter. Apparently the software that our system
uses or something makes it incompatible. By the way, the system is
an Encore multimax with system 4.3 running... <sigh>

Anyone had any luck with this sort of setup?




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From: macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Christopher Silverberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Printing Postscipt Files on Unix
Keywords: macps
Message-ID: <8930@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 22 Feb 90 19:32:47 GMT
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