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Xref: sserve comp.periphs.printers:14393 comp.os.ms-windows.networking.misc:1383 comp.os.ms-windows.misc:33011 comp.unix.bsd:14967 comp.unix.misc:14107 comp.os.os2.misc:105873 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sunic!news.lth.se!ep From: ep@trurl.df.lth.se (Erik Persson) 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: 27 Sep 1994 23:37:33 GMT Organization: yacc - the Computer Society at Lund University and Lund Institute of Technology Lines: 20 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <36aabt$8el@nic.lth.se> References: <36a251$kkj@csdsun2.arlut.utexas.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: trurl.df.lth.se Keywords: ms-windows, OS/2, UNIX, lpr, bsd 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. Load the file in a ordinary texteditor and remove the first character. This worked for me, but I can't recall if 'ordinary texteditor' was an unix editor or a DOS editor. Anyway try some editors and see if it's possible to remove ctrl-d. If it is not try to use a hex editor of some kind, that will do it. >Thanks! /Erik ep@df.lth.se