eastick@me.utoronto.ca (Doug Eastick) (03/03/89)
I still can't get the damn thing to work with our Apple Laserwriters. We're using transcript, but the file I'm sending is just a simple postscript file. Here's what I send (catenated together): - the still.ps program with a "distill" at the end - my ps program - a ^D to indicate end-of-file And heres what shows up in our psc-log file: ------------------------ psbanner: drill.me:eastick Job: jnk.ps Date: Fri Mar 3 13:30:39 1989 psif: drill.me:eastick nogroup start - psc3%!PS-Adobe-2.1 debug version ((V 1.0d release 9 edit 08)) output file: nullx %%[ Error: undefinedfilename; OffendingCommand: file ]%% %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% psif: printer sync problem [2] () psif: end - Fri Mar 3 13:33:13 1989 ------------------------ It looks like it tries to start printing the new prologue (sp?), but then barfs. Help? What does the Glen mean when he says one should have a file system handy to use an interpreter? I've tried using sunPS (I think we got it off the net a while back), and psview and psh in NeWS on an SGI-4D with no success. If anyone has used the still with either or these, I would appreciate hearing about it. Thanks -- Doug Eastick eastick@me.UTORONTO.BITNET UUCP: ...!utai!me!eastick eastick@me.toronto.edu
greid@adobe.com (Glenn Reid) (03/14/89)
In article <89Mar3.151622est.19358@me.utoronto.ca> eastick@me.utoronto.ca (Doug Eastick) writes: > >I still can't get the damn thing to work with our Apple Laserwriters. >We're using transcript, but the file I'm sending is just a simple >postscript file. > >Here's what I send (catenated together): > - the still.ps program with a "distill" at the end > - my ps program > - a ^D to indicate end-of-file > >And heres what shows up in our psc-log file: >------------------------ >psbanner: drill.me:eastick Job: jnk.ps Date: Fri Mar 3 13:30:39 1989 >psif: drill.me:eastick nogroup start - psc3%!PS-Adobe-2.1 debug version ((V 1.0d release 9 edit 08)) >output file: nullx >%%[ Error: undefinedfilename; OffendingCommand: file ]%% >%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% >psif: printer sync problem [2] () >psif: end - Fri Mar 3 13:33:13 1989 >------------------------ I think the clue here is the file name that it named as the output file: "nullx". That indicates that the distillery thought it was being invoked in the form (filename) distill Instead of just with "distill", which would read from the current file. My guess is that there is a null string or something in front of the word "distill" in your concatenation. Look at it with "cat -v" or "od" or some other means, and see what you might find. >What does the Glen mean when he says one should have a >file system handy to use an interpreter? I've tried using sunPS (I >think we got it off the net a while back), and psview and psh in NeWS >on an SGI-4D with no success. If anyone has used the still with either >or these, I would appreciate hearing about it. Thanks I'm not sure if it works with anything but the Display PostScript interpreter, but it should if they are fully compatible. There's nothing particularly implementation-specific in the program that I know of, although I might have used "=string" or something without thinking about it. Good luck. Glenn Reid Adobe Systems