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From: mevanson@iastate.edu ()
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.misc,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: How to remove Ctrl-D from PostScript output (lpr)?
Date: 28 Sep 94 00:31:06 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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Message-ID: <mevanson.780712266@calvin.cc.iastate.edu>
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Keywords: ms-windows, OS/2, UNIX, lpr, bsd
In <36a251$kkj@csdsun2.arlut.utexas.edu> broccol@arlut.utexas.edu (Jonathan Abbey) writes:
>Hi folks. We've got a user who is trying to print from Microsoft Word
>for Windows to an Apple LaserWriter II via a TCP/IP lpr client running
>under OS/2 2.1. Things printed using the standard PostScript driver
>for Windows spits out a Ctrl-D as the first character of the generated
>PostScript, which causes the Apple LaserWriter II to interpret the
>datastream as literal text, and not as PostScript.
Edit WIN.INI. You will find a section for each Printer that appears as
follows:
[Printer Name,Printer Port or file]
In the section below that, add ctrld=0. The control d's will no longer give
you problems.
--Matt
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