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From: jos@bull.nl (Jos Vos)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: change EOF from CTRL-D?
Message-ID: <1028@nlbull.bull.nl>
Date: 26 Apr 91 06:38:42 GMT
References: <1991Apr22.172216.195005@rrz.uni-koeln.de>
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In article <1991Apr22.172216.195005@rrz.uni-koeln.de> schittel@geo.Uni-Koeln.DE (Christoph Schittel) writes:

>Is it possible to change EOF marker from being CTRL-D in PostScript?
>I hooked up our laser printers on a terminal-server and connect to
>it from a unix box. The only control character which don't make it thru
>is CTRL-D. 

It is not really part of the PostScript language itself.
Most printers use CTRL-d as a job separator for their PS jobs,
and on the printers I know this could not be changed.

Why is the CTRL-d a problem? If it is because it's the default EOF
for Unix, why not changing it to something else (stty eof '^a') ?

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