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From: rkim@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Suro)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: WordPerfect and postscript files
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Date: 2 May 91 07:17:57 GMT
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In article <s_2gwwc@rpi.edu> fechuny@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (felix chung yau) writes:
>
>	Hello.  I am having some problems printing a postscript file and was
>wondering if anyone could help me.
> [stuff deleted, obviously]

That's really strange.  I never had problems like that, and I also
use sun (running sunos 4.1) and also this vax (running 4.3) I'm
writing this article from.  I also use Moke v1.1 and use jenscript
and print from the sun, attached to apple laserwriter without any
problems.  The sun is, among its activities, a server to 5-6 (I
forget how many) pc's running pc-nfs, and all connected via ethernet
and connected to the main campus.

To print wp ps files on this machine, I use a small program provided
by the system operaters called wplaser (see below):


---------------------------CUT--------------------------------------
#!/bin/sh
#
#	wplaser
#
#	This script is for MS-DOS WordPerfect PostScript files.
#	A "%!PS-Adobe-" is added to the start of each file.
#	Writes to standard output.
#	2 Sept 87
#
#   Modification History
#	KHE	October, 1987   UCSD. Coverted from csh to sh and
#				added filename error checking
#
stdinput=0				# initialize flag

if [ $# -gt 0 ] 			# check for arguments (file names)
then
	filelist=$*
else
	cat > /tmp/wplaser$$		# otherwise read from std input
	filelist=/tmp/wplaser$$
	stdinput=1			# set flag on
fi


for file in $filelist
do

if test -r $file
then
    # Add a %!PS-Adobe to the head of each file. 

	echo %\!PS-Adobe- | cat - $file | tr -d '\004'

else				# filename was bad

	echo "$0: cannot access $file" 1>&2

fi

if test $stdinput -eq 0
then
	shift			# shift right to next argument
else
	exit 0			# exit after 1 file (std input)
fi

done				# end of for-do loop

exit 0				# normal exit
---------------------CUT-----------------------------------------

I do believe there is something going wrong when you transfer your
wp file to your unix machine.  
-- 

Robert W. Kim                            rkim@ucsd.edu
University of California, San Diego.     kimbob@ucsd.edu
"I'd love to go out with you, but I have to floss my cat."