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skok@itwds1.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Holger Skok) writes:

>>||
>>||How could a .ps postscript file be printed  in the Win 3.1 
>>||environment? Since we can't use an editor to open it and print
>>||from  within  editor.
>>||
>>|
>>|Shell to dos, then type:
>>|copy /b FILENAME.ps LPT1
>>|                    ^^^^
>>|                      |
>>| Use the number for the port that the printer is attached to.
>>|
>>
>>... Or how about dragging and dropping it onto the print 
>>manager?
>Naah, it won't. Dropping a file on the printmanager will start the
>program that is registered for that file type (-extension) and call the
>corresponding print command. You'd have to have a dump-program that you
>could register for the *.ps-files in order for drag and drop printing to
>work.

Could the DOS copy command be manually added to WIN.INI as the command
to call for all .PS files?  In the Extensions section I think?  Or
was that only for Win 3.0?  That way you could double-click the name of
the file from filemanager and boom, it prints.
 
-Charles Allen
CBALLEN@CLEMSON.CLEMSON.EDU
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