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From: sechrest@mist.cs.orst.EDU
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Subject: Re: Apple Laserwriter on a 4.3BSD VAX
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I was recently working on a system that had this same problem. It seems
that the default behavior for the line printer is to print a banner 
page in front of the file. If you send normal text to the Applewriter,
it decides that the file is not a postscipt file and ignores it until
the end of the file. So the banner always makes the file fail. 

If you use the command: lpr -Plw2 -h file.ps
you should get everything printed. I don't have a Laserwriter 
connected, or I would test this for you. I would suspect, but
I have not tried it, that you could alter the printcap for the 
laserwriter to change the banner page.

					John sechrest
					Oregon State University
					sechrest@cs.orst.edu