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From: ttl@astroatc.UUCP (Tony Laundrie)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript Protocols
Keywords: Printer, Protocol, Standards
Message-ID: <1560@astroatc.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 89 19:16:42 GMT
References: <4351@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: ttl@astroatc.UUCP (Tony Laundrie)
Organization: Astronautics Technology Cntr, Madison, WI
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I'm not sure how related this question is, but here goes:

Our laser printer is connected to a VAX running UNIX.  We send things
to the printer with lpr.  Some PostScript programs can be made to write
files back to the RS232 link.  How can I read them?  Does anybody have
a modified version of lpd that puts files from a laser printer into
some temporary file?  From looking at /usr/src/usr.lib/lpr/printjob.c on
our system, it seems that our lpd only reads 1-word responses.

Thanks.

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