Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!iWarp.intel.com!inews!pinkas From: pinkas@almond.intel.com (Israel Pinkas) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: MSWINDOWS PS DRIVERS Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 91 22:01:01 GMT References: <230@gordon.UUCP> Sender: news@inews.intel.com Organization: Software Technologies, INTeL Corporation, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 41 In-reply-to: jpd@gordon.UUCP's message of 26 Jun 91 20:54:03 GMT In article <230@gordon.UUCP> jpd@gordon.UUCP (Jim Drummey) writes: > MSWindows drivers for QMS and Tektronix printers keep putting a Cntl-D > character at the first line of the file. The printers get convinced that > the file is not PostScript. Anyone know a way to stop this? Thanks. Yes. I had this problem. It is a generic problem with all Win3.0 PS drivers. What was worse was that I was redirecting LPT1: through the network to our Unix machines. If you look at the output, you will see that there is a ^D at both the beginning and the end of the file. When I called MicroSoft Tech support, I couldn't get a good answer. The best they could tell me was that the ^Ds were for resetting whatever printer they used. What I discovered was: 1. Don't use print manager. 2. Send your printouts to LPT1.OS2 instead of LPT1:. Windows handles the hardware devices and does its own printing. If you send a file to LPT1.*, Windows will open a file and write output to it. DOS will intercept the open call and redirect the output to the printer. I had to play with it a bit, and actually started defining LPT1.TXT, but I got it to work. -Israel Pinkas Intel Corp -- -------------------------------------- Disclaimer: The above are my personal opinions, and in no way represent the opinions of Intel Corporation. In no way should the above be taken to be a statement of Intel. UUCP: {amdcad,decwrl,hplabs,oliveb,pur-ee,qantel}!intelca!mipos3!st860!pinkas ARPA: pinkas%st860.intel.com@relay.cs.net CSNET: pinkas@st860.intel.com