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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: How can I tell if a file is "postscript"
Message-ID: <452@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 10 Mar 91 06:30:13 GMT
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In article <1460@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
> Two of us looked at the TranScript spooler and neither of us saw
> anything that the filters did that made it run enscript (or whatever)
> to turn text into PostScript.  So, that left the printer doing the
> work.  But, if the printer doesn't do the work, then what piece of
> TranScript is doing the work?

The "pscomm" filter looks for this flag, and if it's not there,
it filters the file through "pstext", which is a simplistic version of
"enscript".

Read the man page for "pscomm" for more details.  I would quote it
here, but it's copyrighted, and would bore too many people, besides :)

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