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Subject: Re: Printing Uploaded Windows Postscript files from Unix 4.3bsd??
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Date: 20 Apr 91 08:20:38 GMT
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In article <41541@netnews.upenn.edu> sal@grip.cis.upenn.edu (Marcos Salganicoff) writes:
>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


If anybody has  any answer to this, please  forward the mail to me or
post it to the net. I generated an .EPS file from WfW and was able to 
print it on a PC connected  to a PosatScript Printer without windows 
by executing the following set of commands:
           copy /b header.eps lpt1:
	   copy /b word.eps   lpt1:

I uploaded  both the files on a Unix system (both as text and binary)
but when  I tried to "lpr" the header file, the printer spot out a 
page with a line  "Error in binary file" printed on that page.