gfr@cobra.mitre.org (Glenn Roberts) (01/26/89)
Another way to handle the incompatibility between Microsoft's Postscript products and Sun's PC-NFS and Transcript products (see Stefano Piccardi's solution in v7n113) is to place the following script in a file (called, say 'psprn') in /usr/local/bin on the Sun: echo '%!' | cat - $1 | tr -d '\004' | lpr then on the PC have a batch file (called, say PSPRN.BAT) with COPY %1 H: RSH cobra PSPRN %1 (substitue the name of your Sun for 'cobra' above. Note also that H: is assumed to be NFS mounted to your home directory on the Sun). To print on the PC from, say Excel, print to the file SPOOL.PRN and then in a DOS shell type PSPRN SPOOL.PRN This is a flawed but workable way to work around the incompatibility problem. Unfortunately both this and Mr. Piccardi's solutions require you to execute a DOS command. If you're working on a Sun386i you can solve this problem by putting the following line in your ~/pc/setup.pc file: LPT1 (echo \%\! && cat) | lpr This will force the printer to interpret ALL output to LPT1: as postscript. You should be able to set up LPT2: as a text printer. - Glenn Roberts, The MITRE Corp., McLean VA (703) 883-6820 gfr@cobra.mitre.org