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From: izumi@violet.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
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Subject: Re: DOS programs and PostScript (MS Word)
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Date: 22 Feb 89 06:04:15 GMT
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In article <976@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>In article <24469@amdcad.AMD.COM>, phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
>> Word does not seem to put on the .ini file when it prints to a file.
>> Perhaps 4.0 does when printing to a printer but not a file? 
>> Phil Ngai, phil@diablo.amd.com		{uunet,decwrl,ucbvax}!amdcad!phil
>
>You are correct.  The .INI file is not printed to a disk file, only
>the printer.  Some changes to the .INI file are required to make Word
>4.0 print through PC-NFS directly, but it does work.  I use it all
>the time.
>
>Here's the POSTSCRP.INI file I use with PC-NFS:
>==cut here============= ... [PostScript code deleted]....

This brings me to the question of Copyright.
Are we free to distribute POSTRCRP.INI with the actual Word output
to someone else as print file destined for PS printers?
It seems to me that it is a reasonable thing to expect from a
word processing program vendor.

Does Microsoft has any official position on this?
Izumi Ohzawa
izumi@violet.berkeley.edu