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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: lpr and PostScript?
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Date: 15 Aug 90 03:03:34 GMT
References: <23632@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
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In article <23632@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> tang@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Charles W. T. Tang) writes:
<Hi, could someone kindly tell me how to use the lpr command in UNIX to
<print out a postscript file (but not a listing of)?  What are the flags
<that need to be specified?  And, what should the files start out saying?
<(I want to know where to make the cut....)

If you send a PostScript file to a PostScript printer, with lpr, it should
print out just fine.  That is unless you have some kind of strange filter
attached to your print spooler.

You didn't say, but are you sending the PostScript file to a PostScript
laser printer?  If not, all you'll get is a listing.

If you have a PostScript printer attached to your system, make sure the
first line is: %!PS

These are a few things to check.  But without details about your system,
it is a little tough to figure out.  Please give exacting details of
what you have and what you are doing, as it will help people on the net
to understand what is wrong.  Just saying that it is broken and asking
what is wrong is like asking us to use a crystal ball.
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