Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!deimos.cis.ksu.edu!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac files in postscript format Message-ID: <126900003@p.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 24 Mar 89 16:47:00 GMT References: <37608@bbn.COM> Lines: 28 Nf-ID: #R:bbn.COM:37608:p.cs.uiuc.edu:126900003:000:1247 Nf-From: p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies Mar 24 10:47:00 1989 Oh, and by the way, what does a blinking apple indicate?????? My Hard disk won't boot, what can I do??????? What is the programmer's switch, where does it go?????? Gee, I sure get tired of hearing these questions. The poster should know that there is a file on SUMEX.STANFORD.EDU PS: that describes printing postscript files. Have you looked at this file yet? P.S. I know the answers to all the above questions. I wish Apple would stop wasting our time, and document its g*ddamn computer so these frustrated users would DISAPPEAR!!!!!! P.P.S. 3 Easy ways for postscript printing to fail --- (A) You must "trick" your mac by saying you have appletalk hooked up, and then select a non-existent laserwriter. If you really do have appletalk hooked up, then you are in trouble. (B) If you upload a file, make sure lines are terminated by ^M's, e.g. UNIX uploads should be in BINARY mode. (C) I find that only the April 14, 1987 Laserprep/Laserwriter (old icons) work on our imagen printer with ultrascript. Experiment. Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801 ARPA: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu UUCP: {uunet,harvard}!uiucdcs!gillies