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From: jipping@frodo.cs.hope.EDU (Mike Jipping)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Ascii file to postscript translator
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Date: 12 Feb 88 13:58:31 GMT
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In article <202@halibut.NOSC.MIL> Brad P. Smith wrote:
>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?

And in article <1561@uhccux.UUCP> Torben Neilsen responded that Transcript
puts our "enscript" but it's not in the public domain.  

Back in April '86 (4/23/86), Glenn Reid posted a PostScript prolog that made
PostScript printers behave like line printers when the prolog was prepended to
a file of ASCII.  A clip from his message:

--- This is a file which will allow a PostScript printer to behave like a
--- line printer for text files.  It is designed to be as short as possible
--- while maintaining great flexibility.  It works by reading from
--- "currentfile", and may simply be PREpended to the beginning of a text
--- file and shipped to the printer.

If this is what you need, I could send the original posting.  Perhaps the
archives have it too.
                                        -- Mike Jipping
                                           Dept of Computer Science
                                           Hope College
                                           jipping@cs.hope.edu