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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Proper postscript file?
Message-ID: <1989Dec14.210558.21685@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 89 21:05:58 GMT
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Reply-To: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
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Concerning control-D's at the end of Postscript output from programs:

There is a big problem here. One SHOULD be able to send the output of
a program to the printer. And get it to work. In other words,
on MS-DOS you should simply be able to say 

print file.psc

and get your output. This is because Postscript is plain ASCII - 
otherwise you would need to use binary mode.

IF that doesn't work, I would assume that there is something 
wrong with the printer. It is sort of silly to have to kludge up
some mechanism to send a control-D to a printer to get it to work.
Requiring a "printer control program", whatever that may be, 
is a kludge.

Doug McDonald