Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!cognos!richardb
From: richardb@cognos.UUCP (Richard Brosseau)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Printing Uploaded Windows Postscript files from Unix 4.3bsd??
Message-ID: <9557@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 23 Apr 91 12:36:05 GMT
References: <41541@netnews.upenn.edu> <1991Apr20.082038.21633@agate.berkeley.edu> <1991Apr20.181504.699@midway.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: richardb@cognos.UUCP (Richard Brosseau)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <1991Apr20.181504.699@midway.uchicago.edu> wer5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Will E. Rose) writes:
+Here's the story:
+
+First off, Windows puts a ^D at the start of a file, and Unix chokes on this,
+as well as any ^D in the file.  It must be deleted.  Also, the first line
+must be a %! all alone (Apple seems to prefer it that way).
+
+We have written a small program that will play this little game for you.
+It will run under Unix or DOS.
+

[program deleted]

A sed script works quite well also ....
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Richard Brosseau       uunet!mitel!cunews!cognos!richardb

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