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Re: SunOS 4.0 and Sun Transcript warning

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From: Bruce G. Barnett
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1988 02:27
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In article <1941@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) writes:
|From article <4588@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com>, I wrote: 
|" widths have been modified for better PostScript support. (So you can
|" type "troff -t |lpr -Premote -t" without having TransScript
|" installed). ...
|
|Can this be right?  Who translates from troff's cat output to
|PostScript?  I think you would have to have TransScript installed
|for this.  Or have some functional equivalent of the pscat program.

The -t filter is pscat. It is executed by the remote printer in this
case. TransScript  is installed on the remote printer in the above case.

Or so the documentation implies.
-- 
	Bruce G. Barnett 	<barnett@ge-crd.ARPA> <barnett@steinmetz.UUCP>
				uunet!steinmetz!barnett
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From: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett)
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Subject: Re: SunOS 4.0 and Sun Transcript warning
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Date: 13 Jun 88 02:27:45 GMT
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