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From: ian@unipalm.uucp (Ian Phillipps)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: LPD and PostScript printers
Message-ID: <1991Jun3.130553.15551@unipalm.uucp>
Date: 3 Jun 91 13:05:53 GMT
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Organization: Unipalm Ltd., Cambridge, England
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jda@coach.shell.com (Joel D. Anderson) writes:

>From a Sun workstation I'm trying to print ascii files to a PostScript
>printer attached to a DOS PC.  The PC is running PC/TCP LPD (v1.0) from
>FTP Software.

>Things work great if on the Sun I print a postscript file with
>'lpr -h postscript.file', but if I try to print a plain ascii file (or
>exclude the -h lpr option), the file never prints.  The printer does not
>handle non-postscript-encapsulated files and subsequently flushes its buffer.

I don't know Transcript (which is presumably what those filters are)
well enough to know why the encapsulation of plain text files isn't
working. However, to get printing without the -h, include a ctrl/D as
the last character of the header.  The header then gets thrown away (or
printed, if it was real PS).

PS - you have to put a REAL Ctrl/D in your config file, not an octal
escape, whatever the FTP manual may imply.

Ian