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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Configuring an Apple LaserWriter for 8-bit postscript
Message-ID: <1044@maxim.erbe.se>
Date: 21 Dec 89 08:43:50 GMT
References: <89352.151243HATHAWA@GECRDVM1.BITNET> <17467@rpp386.cactus.org>
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In article <17467@rpp386.cactus.org>, woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) writes:

> O.K.  you can set the serial port with setscc to be a full 8 bits wide.
> The data will get through, EXCEPT CERTAIN control code, ^D ^S ^Q ^T ^C
> Currently, Adobe in it's infinite wisdon
> has not seen fit to tell us how to get around this problem.

Yes, they have. The client (ie, the application generating the Postscript
code) should not rely on anything else than a 7-bit, no-control-chars data
flow. All non-ASCII characters and control characters should be sent in
backslash-octal form (ie, \014).

The info is in the Red Book. You just have to read it very carefully.

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          Robert Claeson      E-mail: rclaeson@erbe.se
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