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From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Printing PostScript to a File: ^D problem?
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Date: 4 Feb 91 20:59:41 GMT
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Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville, Oregon
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> I normally print my documents to a file, carry the floppy to work and
> shoot the postscript out to a printer.
> All documents that I generate postscript for from Windows, has a leading
> Ctrl-D character. This 1st character blows away the printers I sent the
> file to with the: binary file encountered error.

My guess is that, at work, you're shipping the file to the printer over
a network (AppleTalk or some such) instead of through a serial port or
parallel port.  Control characters such as ^D have special meaning only
when received over these two ports.

If this is your problem, about all you can do is remove that ^D, or
send the file to the printer through its serial or parallel port.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)    [UUCP]
                        (andrew%frip.wv.tek.com@relay.cs.net)   [ARPA]