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From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!jarthur!echmc!chris@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Chris Yoder)
Subject: Re: Postscript driver
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> Poster Aidan Dillon asks:
>>Does anyone have any info on how I use an Apple Laserwriter
>>on a cluster of Vaxstation 3100s. It can print postscript
>>files ok, but any ascii files, etc.. aren't.
>>Is there any public domain or commercial software that
>>can do the job, and where can I get it?

     We have a locally written program called "PS" that allows you to turn a
text file into a postscript document.  After you get the postscript document,
you print it as you do any other postscript file.  PS allows you to specify
whichever of the built-in fonts on the LaserWriter you would like to use.  If
you use RUNOFF, it will convert the underlining and boldfacing that RUNOFF
normally does.  In order to grab a copy, FTP to HMCVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU, login as
ANONYMOUS and CD to [.CSV.PS].

     You could easily write a DCL script to do the conversion and issue the
print command, but we haven't done that.  I don't know if there is a print
symbiont available for VMS that will sense whether or not the incoming file is
a postscript file, and if not turn it into one.  I have seen shell scripts on
Un*x that do essentially that though...

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