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From: ejb@think.com (Erik Bailey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Help zapping a printer
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Date: 21 Aug 90 22:19:44 GMT
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In article <1851@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov>
toms@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider) writes:
>I have an Apple LaserWriter IIntx PostScript printer.  On occasion I mess up
>and send it a straight ASCII text.  It is then completely hung.  [...]
>
>  Tom Schneider

Try sending a PostScript EOF (^D). --Erik

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