Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!att!chinet!les
From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: micro-soft word postscript header file.
Message-ID: <6115@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 28 Jul 88 13:35:23 GMT
References: <808@wacsvax.OZ>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <808@wacsvax.OZ> doug@wacsvax.OZ (Doug Robb) writes:
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>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

Is your flow control set to restart on any character or just ^Q?  There
are several things that can trigger postscript printers to generate
some verbose output, one of which is re-loading a prolog that checks
for its own existance in memory.  If you don't have a process reading
these characters they can appear at strange times and mess up the
flow control.  Likewise, if the ^D at the end of the file doesn't make
it to the printer (or the spooler tacks on a form-feed) the timeout
error message might affect the next file.

Les Mikesell