Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!rpi!barryf From: barryf@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Barry B. Floyd) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: PostScript download utility (psdown.exe?) Keywords: postscript Message-ID: Date: 30 May 91 15:01:50 GMT References: <1991May29.234607.27019@serval.net.wsu.edu> <1991May30.125138.7300@den.mmc.com> Lines: 37 Nntp-Posting-Host: aix01srv.aix.rpi.edu schwartz@possum.den.mmc.com (Michael Schwartz) writes: >Note: You CANNOT always use copy, especially if your printer requires >software handshaking. SURELY there are some software applications that >do this well. >I recall that I have done this through W4W, and have done this using >Terminal (pasting a document into the terminal window). >If one does not exist, it seems that it should be easy to write.... >-- >schwartz@pogo.den.mmc.com "You'll find ... that the only thing >mschwartz@mmc.com you can do easily is be wrong, >DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed are and that's hardly worth the effort" >not necessarily those of my employer or myself. --the phantom tollbooth I have on several occasions tried copying *.ps files to COM1, and I have tried using FILE - PRINT, both from FileManager. I have yet to get a single printed sheet. The source *.ps files are posted to FTP sites as alternatives to ASCII files. Is it possible that the source files are not compatible with other files? I recall a thread of discussion pertaining to a ^D prefix or postfix in some *.ps files, is this a possible cause for problems when using FileManager? I will persist in my attempts to get *.ps files through FileManager, but I was hoping for a *.ps previewer and printer utility. Any such utilities exist? barry -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Barry B. Floyd \\\ barry_floyd@mts.rpi.edu | | Manager Information Systems - HR \\\ usere9w9@rpitsmts | +-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute--------------------troy, ny 12180-+