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From: mikulska@odin.ucsd.edu (Margaret Mikulska)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: postscript from PS/2 to unix
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Date: 13 Mar 90 03:16:29 GMT
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Reply-To: mikulska@odin.ucsd.edu (Margaret Mikulska)
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One of our users has the following problem:

He's using a word processor "Nota Bene" from Dragonfly on his PS/2, 
under MS-DOS. The word processor creates a PostScript file which can
be saved with the "print-to-disk" command. Since he doesn't have a 
postscript printer, he transfers the file to a BSD-ish UNIX system
to print it out on an Apple LaserWriter.

When it turned out that the LaserWriter wouldn't print this file
from our UNIX system, I had a look at the file - it was obviously
in some format that no printer (attached to a unix system) would 
print as is. For starters, it didn't start with "%!"; the whole file, 
30,000 characters, was one single line (actually, 'wc' reported 
0 lines); but it did seem to contain a lot of PostScript commands.

I suppose that the file was created in some format suitable to be
sent from PS/2 directly to the printer (with MS-DOS command print,
for instance), but not to be ported to a unix or other system. 
Could somebody more familiar with PS/2, PCs, and word processors
on PCs tell me what's going on and how do I force the "Nota Bene"
word processor to produce an honest-to-goodness ps file ?

Any hint greatly appreciated.


Margaret Mikulska
systems administrator

UC San Diego
Dept. of ECE

mmikulska@ucsd.edu
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