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Re: MS Windows Printing on NeXT

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From: Sherwood Botsford
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 00:11
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Doug Booth writes
>  We are trying to get a Next machine and printer working as a network printer
> on an ethernet network to give pc's access to laser printing. We are using
> the LPR network printing utilities from the University of British Columbia.
> Everything works fine - text files print with no problems, postscript files
> print correctly if they are generated by WordPerfect drivers, Autocad drivers
> and Quattro Pro drivers. Postscript files generated from Microsoft Windows
> will not print. If the same file is moved to the Next and ran through the
> Previewer it complains a bit but the file comes up and will print.
>  Does anyone know of a way to make this work - defining a new printer in the
> printcap file, a new poscript driver for MS Windows, a way to use the 
> Previewer as a filter???
>  Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> 	Doug Booth  userDABO@mts.ucs.ualberta.ca

MS windows puts a control-D at the beginning and end of the file.  Remove  
those, and it prints fine.  
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