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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Getting printer to acknowledge End Of Job sooner
Message-ID: <396@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 16 Jan 91 18:38:58 GMT
References: <1991Jan15.191022.17506@cbnewsm.att.com>
Reply-To: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
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In article <1991Jan15.191022.17506@cbnewsm.att.com> kalin@cbnewsm.att.com (andrew.j.kalinowitsch) writes:
>I need to figure out how to get the printer to acknowledge an "end of job"
>as soon as possible after the job is complete.

Lots of people will suggest sending control-D to the printer at the end
of your job, since it's connected over a serial line, and I'll suggest
it, too.

Many of those same people will also point out that control-D is really
part of the serial-line protocol and not part of the PostScript language,
which is why it's not in the PS code to begin with, and why the spooler
should add it at the end of each job.

Just out of curiosity, you might also try adding the "stop" operator to
the end of your file.  It should have a similar effect, I think, and would
be completely portable, unlike control-D.
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