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From: torben@dorsai.ics.hawaii.edu (Prof. Torben N. Nielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Ascii file to postscript translator
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Date: 11 Feb 88 01:37:07 GMT
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In article <202@halibut.NOSC.MIL> smithbp@halibut.NOSC.MIL (Brad P. Smith) writes:
>We have purchased a AST laser printer that only understands Postscript.
>We would like to print regular ascii text files on this printer.
>
>Can anyone send me a C program that takes an ascii file and would encode
>the text in Postscript and so output a file ready to send to this AST printer?

I know that the ``enscript" program that comes with the Transcript package
does that. But that one isn't public domain. If any public domain ones
are out there, I too would be interested as I only have the Transcript stuff
on a Sun-3 while my workstation is a Sun-4 and I need the ``enscript"
stuff...

						---Torben