Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!portal!cup.portal.com!schuster
From: schuster@cup.portal.com (Michael Alan Schuster)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Printing startup page on Laserwriters
Message-ID: <35887@cup.portal.com>
Date: 13 Nov 90 00:49:20 GMT
References: <BGONDERM.90Nov6085513@dante.nmsu.edu>
  <1681@chinacat.Unicom.COM>
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Lines: 29

>> Does anyone know how to get Apple LaserWriters (plus, NT, NTX) to
>> print the startup page on demand?  What we'd like to do is send some
>There is however, an entry in one of the builtin dictionaries
>I don't remember which one.  Try this:
>in interactive mode, using a terminal program, type in
>executive <cr>
>you should be given a prompt
>
>PS>
>turn on you ascii capture, and do
>/serverdict load {== ==} forall
>/statusdict load {== ==} forall
>/$printerdict load {== ==} forall
>/systemdict load {== ==} forall
>
>Look through the resulting captured text.  You are looking for a routine
>titled startpage or something similar.  You can execute that routine and
>get a startup page.

I tried this on my HP PostScript cartridge, but couldn't find it. Predictably,
the program
	startpage
	showpage
suggested here produced an undefined error for --startpage--.

Interestingly, there were other "dict" tokens mixed in with the resulting
text: --secretdict--, --internaldict--, and --$idleTimeDict--. None
of these could be accessed, however - they produced either undefined or
invalidaccess errors.