Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]

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From: Jim Wong
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 21:09

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In article <402kk5$jbb@blackice.winternet.com>, jdege@winternet.com (Jeff
Dege) wrote:
>    On a unix box, the default behavior is case 3 if it is going to a
> Postscript printer, and case 2, otherwise.  A bit of work with the
> printer filters, though, and you can easily make the system produce
> case 3 in every case.  (i.e., if the document is a postscript document,
> and it is going to a non-postscript printer that gs can produce output
> for, run the document through gs before sending it to the printer.)

And with an equally trivial bit of work, you can get case 3 on a Mac.

-- 
Jim Wong (jd-wong@uiuc.edu)

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From: jd-wong@uiuc.edu (Jim Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 16:09:20 -0500
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