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From: rena%shemesh@LANL.GOV (Rena Whiteson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: PostScript and printers
Message-ID: <8811221519.AA02641@shemesh.lanl.gov>
Date: 23 Nov 88 07:38:01 GMT
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I am running NeWS 1.1 
I have a program, written entirely in PostScript, that gets data from
an input file and draws a (beautiful) picture of a chromosome into a window.
I want to be able to send it to a printer to get a hardcopy of the picture.
So I have another version of the program, without the window stuff and
headed with 
%!

The printer (westley) gives me this error message:

     banner: shemesh:rena  Job: print20  Date: Fri Nov  4 10:24:25 1988
     psif: shemesh:rena westley start - Fri Nov  4 10:24:26 1988
     psif: initial status - %%[ status: busy; source: serial 25 ]%%
     %%[ Error: undefinedfilename; OffendingCommand: file ]%%
     %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
     psif: end - Fri Nov  4 10:24:39 1988

Though the necessary file does exist, and is called by its full path name.

My workstation, the printer, and the PostScript interpreter run off the
same server.  When I change the program so that all the necessary data is in 
the the program itself, no need to read another file, it prints the picture
perfectly.

Am I trying to do the impossible?  I'd appreciate any help.

rena@shemesh.lanl.gov