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From: hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au (Roger Hadgraft)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: re: PS libraries (^D and all that)
Message-ID: <3993@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 1 May 89 21:38:42 GMT
References: <2994@daisy.UUCP> <775@adobe.UUCP> <8751@polya.Stanford.EDU> <98@snll-arpagw.UUCP> <22489@ccicpg.UUCP>
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In article <22489@ccicpg.UUCP>, evans@ccicpg.UUCP ( Scott Evans) writes:
> In article <98@snll-arpagw.UUCP>, paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) writes:
>
> This is purely a kludge to get around a limitation on the PC.  It is
> especially apparent when you see a ^D not only at the end of a Postscript
> file but also at the beginning!!!
>
> The postscript printer that is hooked up to our Unix system does not like the
> ^D at the beginning of the file and so we have to filter all the files that
> come from a PC before they can be printed.

My experience has been exactly the opposite. Our PS printers connected to our
terminal network won't print PS files WITHOUT a ^D at the start!
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