Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Path: utzoo!telly!eci386!ecicrl!clewis
From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Subject: Re: How can I tell if a file is "postscript"
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.043717.5037@ferret.ocunix.on.ca>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 91 04:37:17 GMT
References: <13109@wraxall.inmos.co.uk> <1991Mar19.052103.9026@ferret.ocunix.on.ca> <1991Mar19.171530.6904@chinet.chi.il.us>
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In article <1991Mar19.171530.6904@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>In article <1991Mar19.052103.9026@ferret.ocunix.on.ca> clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:

>>A truly smart spooler would figure out what printers are appropriate
>>for a given magic cookie, and route the results there.  Otherwise,
>>you're expecting everybody to remember which printers can handle a given
>>format and/or remember lots of obscure options to tell the printer to
>>go into the correct mode.

>Ah, but the appropriate thing to do with a particular type of data may
>depend on who sent it and what command line options were given as well.

I was presuming, but left unsaid, that certain things like printing
location, user environment etc. should also be taken into account.
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