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From: cck@CUNIXC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Charlie C. Kim)
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Subject: Re: CAP and Transcript
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Date: 15 Mar 88 00:46:30 GMT
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(1) The next version of lwsrv has a switch to turn on cr to lf mapping
on and off.  (-T crtolf)  (It also has a -T quote8bit to quote 8 bit
characters for Transcript serial printers).

(2) psrv - the page reversal filter (used by pscomm) for Transcript is
at fault.  It improperly assumes that nothing (important) appears
between the "%%EndProlog" Document Structuring Conventions command and
the first "%%Page" DSC command.  Unfortunately, several body DSC
commands can occur there.  And in particular, the Macintosh
LaserWriter driver has a "%%BeginDocumentSetup/%%EndDocumentSetup"
group (which really should be a %%BeginSetup/%%EndSetup group
according to the documentation that I have) in between with code to
setup the macintosh dictionary (laserprep).

psrv should be fixed.  papif will be able to make use of either psrv
or psrev (the user level command which seems to work properly).
Transcript's pscomm cannot use psrev since it depends upon psrv's
notifing pscomm when output is ready.

Sigh, yet another Transcript compatibility option since psrv probably
won't get fixed at a lot of places anytime soon.

Charlie C. Kim
User Services
Columbia University