Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!oucsace!bchurch
From: bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Transferring Postscript files with Kermit
Summary: Try Binary
Message-ID: <1769@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Date: 18 Aug 90 13:25:08 GMT
References: <28569@netnews.upenn.edu>
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Organization: Ohio University CS Dept., Athens
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In article <28569@netnews.upenn.edu>, clarke@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Lloyd Clarke ) writes:
> I am running Publish It! 3.0 on an Apple IIe.  What I am attempting
> to do is write the Postscript file to disk, that Publish It would
> normally send to the Laserwriter.  Then I want to send it to a Unix
> system (Sun 3/60) via kermit.  And finally print it on an Apple
> Laserwriter.
> 
> My current state of mess is that the file that I get to the Sun
> will cause the laserwriter to flash and nothing ever comes out.
> I have been told that I should make the transfer with Kermit in
> binary mode.  The problem is that kermit doesn't want to do that
> because it reads Apple's internal pointer that says that it is a
> text file.
> 
> Help!  Has anyone used Publish It! and transferred its PS file.
> Any PS file for that matter.  I'll accept any advice however
> great or small.
> 
> --LL

I'd try two things. First off, download the file and see if Publish-It!
will use it. If so you know that the file is not being corrupted but that
it's another problem. If uploading is the problem I would change the file type
(there are many utilities for this) of the PS file to binary and then send
it. This wouldn't involve changing any of the file contents, only the 
directory information.


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