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From: dale@cec2.wustl.edu (Dale Frye)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Printing to PS printer over NFS
Keywords: Postscript, NFS
Message-ID: <1991Feb6.224409.3072@cec1.wustl.edu>
Date: 6 Feb 91 22:44:09 GMT
References: <1991Feb4.205509.6259@massey.ac.nz>
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
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I had several problems with printing to postscript printers through a
UNIX spooler.

1: Windows puts a ^D at the start and end of the file. This caused the spooler
   to think the file was a binary file and wouldn't print it.
   If you print to an encapsulated file this problem goes away. You can't
   set the default to this however.

2: Many programs put a comment after the !% on the first line. This caused
   our printer to act like it was printing but nothing would come out, not
   even the header page. I used a disk editor to modify the driver for
   Windows, AutoCad and other programs. I changed the first two charaters
   of the comment (usually PS-Adobe) to decimal /10 /0. 

I have reported these problems to Microsoft. Hopefully they will change
things shortly.

Dale Frye