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Xref: sserve comp.periphs.printers:14598 comp.os.ms-windows.networking.misc:1445 comp.os.ms-windows.misc:33424 comp.unix.bsd:15021 comp.unix.misc:14215 comp.os.os2.misc:106544 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!emalpha2.em.doe.gov!news From: thomas.eden@em.doe.gov (Thomas Eden) 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: 3 Oct 1994 14:38:40 GMT Organization: Department of Energy Lines: 29 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <36p51g$gfm@emalpha2.em.doe.gov> References: <36a251$kkj@csdsun2.arlut.utexas.edu> <36ftom$5ng@news.service.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 146.138.34.189 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.1 In article <36ftom$5ng@news.service.uci.edu>, jrefling@rosslare.ece.uci.edu (John Refling) says: > >In article <36a251$kkj@csdsun2.arlut.utexas.edu>, >Jonathan Abbey <broccol@arlut.utexas.edu> wrote: >>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. We ran into the same problem with our network, and the fix was simple: Open you Win.Ini file, and go to the printer section for your postscript printer ([printertype, LPT1]), and enter the following line: CtrlD=0 This will instruct Windows to NOT send a Ctrl-D to the printer to start the job. As Unix uses the Ctrl-D to signify the end of the input string (EOF) to the printer, this can really hose things up for printing to an LPR controlled printer from Windows. ------------------------------------------------------------------- //Thomas Eden //Senior Network Engineer //Coleman Research Corporation //eden@crc.com