Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!munnari!mimir!wacsvax!doug
From: doug@wacsvax.OZ (Doug Robb)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: micro-soft word postscript header file.
Message-ID: <808@wacsvax.OZ>
Date: 25 Jul 88 10:18:17 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, Uni. Western Australia.
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I have an ast turbo laser hooked onto (via serial line) a vax750 running
4.3BSD. I can spool off files using lwf (posted on net a while
back) and so flow control etc seems to be working (in fact I know
its working as I've hung a terminal off the line instead of the printer
and checked it). 

The problem:

To print files from a msword document (nfs'ed up from pc) requires
the msword postscript prolog file to be sent to printer once.
After I send this file (the prolog) it refuses to print more than 3 pages
of any msword document. Documents shorter than this are printed
ok most of the time but not always. 
It usually gives me "error: undefined: offending command : flushing
rest of job " etc at random spots in the file. 
Now the SAME prolog with SAME printer and SAME test file
works fine if the printer is hooked directly to a pc and driven through
ms-word. The prolog writes to non volotile memory so I could understand
how it could screw up ditrof, lwf etc files but to screw up its own
files? By the way the header loads up without errors. I have checked
out flow control as I have said so what else could be happening?

Has anyone encountered problems with loading/running ms-word documents
from a unix host? Any thoughts about this strange behaviour would be 
appreciated. Thanks doug@wapsyvax.oz