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From: gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: DOS programs and PostScript
Message-ID: <8030006@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 89 23:41:47 GMT
References: <204@nlgvax.UUCP>
Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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/ comp.lang.postscript / hst@mh_co2.mh.nl (Klaas Hemstra) / Feb 10, 1989 /
> >  - Not use control characters, only CR, LF. Especially, no control-C,
> >    control-D, control-U and the like. These control-characters are likely
> >    to screw up a printer spooler, like SUNOS.
> 
> I do not agree, this should work ok.
> The purpose of a network is to share printers / discs as if they were yours,

Well, this much I'd buy.  The networked spooler can simply discard the
control characters.

>Thats why I find that you should not blaim PostScript for things that are
>really the networks fault.

The biggest problem, because you need an AI system to work around it, is
not these little communication glitches.

The biggest problem is that many (perhaps most) single-user-computer
programs assume that they own their world.  Each one thinks that it can
send its own custom header to the printer in the morning, and the printer
will still be primed that way when it's time to print some output in the
evening.

That's not a networking problem.  It's an attitude problem.

Jacob Gore				Gore@EECS.NWU.Edu
Northwestern Univ., EECS Dept.		{oddjob,gargoyle,att}!nucsrl!gore