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From: ron@woan (Ronald S. Woan)
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Subject: Re: RS/6000 printing to Apple Laserwriter
Keywords: print printing RS/6000 Apple Laserwriter
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Date: 17 Oct 90 15:20:55 GMT
References: <1990Oct12.190015.10799@caen.engin.umich.edu>
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In article <1990Oct12.190015.10799@caen.engin.umich.edu>,
wross@caen.engin.umich.edu (Wendy Ross) writes:
Wendy> I have the device set up properly (ie I can echo postscript
Wendy> commands to /dev/lp0 and it works), and I even got a postscript
Wendy> file to print using this crazy AIX printing.  The problem comes
Wendy> when trying to print ASCII files.  What is the proper
Wendy> formatter/input filter to translate ASCII to postscript?  Has
Wendy> anyone modified one of the predefined printers to successfully
Wendy> work?

I don't believe IBM supplied an ASCII to PostScript filter... Some
freely available ones are A2PS (comp.sources.unix archives like
gatekeeper.dec.com) and mpage...

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