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From: dean@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Dean Okamura)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: How Can I Un-Do WordPerfect LaserWriter Set-Up?
Message-ID: <1793@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 11 Apr 88 16:25:21 GMT
Reply-To: dean@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Dean Okamura)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
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I want to thank those who responded to my original posting.

I did get one response through e-mail:

>From adobe!madison!byron@decwrl.dec.com Fri Apr  1 10:03:09 1988
>Message-Id: <8804011717.AA10611@madison.LOCAL>
>To: dean@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov
>Subject: setsccbatch operator
>Date: Fri, 01 Apr 88 09:17:24 PST
>
>I don't know anyting about WordPerfect, but the "7" you are passing
>the setsccbatch operator sets the printer into no parity and DTR flow
>control.  Most UNIX boxes use XON/XOFF, and most PC's use DTR.  The
>two are not compatible.
>
>It is usually better not to do the setsccbatch operator at all, since
>presumably the printer is set up to correctly talk to the host.  However,
>if WordPerfect produces PostScript that has includes binary (non-ASCII,
>non-portable) characters, they have to do the no-parity/DTR flow control
>to get the binary data into the printer.  In which case you are stuck.
>There will be no way to get the binary data down the serial line from a
>host that is talking XON/XOFF.
>
>Hope this helps...
>
>Mike Byron                        usenet:   {sun|decwrl}!adobe!byron
>Adobe Systems Incorporated        arpa:     adobe!byron@decwrl.dec.com
>1585 Charleston Road, PO Box 7900
>Mountain View, CA  94309-7900
>

Does WordPerfect send "binary characters" (i.e., a PostScript prolog
followed by a WordPerfect document file) to the LaserWriter?

Please post because I will not receive e-mail after April 15.

-- 
Dean Okamura
Telos Consulting Services, 1370 N. Brea, #150, Fullerton, CA 92635.

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