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Article #466Re: MS Windows Printing on NeXT
From: Sherwood Botsford
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 00:11
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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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!decwrl!access.usask.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!news From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) Subject: Re: MS Windows Printing on NeXT Message-ID: <1992Apr7.001126.26372@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: fenris.space.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <doug.1@mineral.ualberta.ca> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 00:11:26 GMT