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From: hodges@toaster.SFSU.EDU (John Hodges)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Problem with dvips3.6 on NeXT.
Message-ID: <691@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 11 Jun 90 18:17:52 GMT
References: <118400013@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <118400013@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> gsg0384@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>Hi,
>
>I noticed that Tom Rokicki's "dvips 3.6" program on NeXT does not handle 
>"\special{psfile=somefile.eps hscale=....}
>command at all.   His same dvips program version 3.6--4.1 on Stardent 1500
>works great.   What's wrong on the NeXT machine?   Has anyone had the same 
>problem?
>
>	Hugh
>	song@ardent1.ceg.uiuc.edu

I have had the same problem for many months.  I have provided Tom with
samples and he "claims" that it works on his machine.  Well, it "works"
on my machine too, until I try to print anything.  One sure way to know
whether the problem is with dvips or the postscript is if lpr works on
the postscript on the NeXT printer.  Since I have no problem with this
and the TeX job runs fine it must be dvips.  Well Tom, when are you
going to fix this so that we can put real pictures into our documents.
I ended up having to cut-and-paste Mac pictures into that manual, thank
you very much.  So much for living in the 20th century!

Jack Hodges, SFSU