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From: rickc@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Rick Clements)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: EOF indication to PostScript printer
Message-ID: <9515@pogo.WV.TEK.COM>
Date: 27 Jul 90 00:30:07 GMT
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In article <32478@sparkyfs.istc.sri.com> zwicky@quetzalcoatl.itstd.sri.com.UUCP (Elizabeth Zwicky) writes:
>happens, you are still speaking PostScript. Most printers take a
>control-D as an EOF indicator; most emulators take that, or whatever
>the OS they're on takes as EOF or whatever indicates to them that
>their connection has been closed. 

EOF indication is port specific.  Control-D is the EOF indicator for serial &
parallel.  Its a PAP EOF for AppleTalk.  (Its a packet not a character.)
-- 
Rick Clements (RickC@pogo.WV.TEK.COM)