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From: sal@grip.cis.upenn.edu (Marcos Salganicoff)
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Subject: Printing Uploaded Windows Postscript files from Unix 4.3bsd??
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Date: 19 Apr 91 15:26:01 GMT
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I am using the printer driver "Postscript File" from windows to
generate a postscript file on disk from a windows application on a pc.
Then I upload the postscript file to a unix system via kermit and try
to "lpr" it onto an apple laserwriter, which promptly flashes and gives
up.

With the macintosh there are laserprep files which must be prepended
to any file in order for it to print out. I imagine there is a similar
"prep" file for windows, right? My questions:

1.Is there any way to get windows to include the prep file (if it
doesn't) in the postscript when the ps file is generated, or does the
printer handler take care of it?

2.Is there are program which runs under unix which will automatically prepend
the windows "prep" file?

If anyone has done this, could you please let me know the procedure.
Thanks bunches,




			  Marcos Salganicoff
	  General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception Lab