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Date:      Thu, 23 Mar 1995 17:11:32 -0800
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
Cc:        hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: SMP work 
Message-ID:  <199503240111.RAA06794@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 Mar 1995 16:45:54 PST." <199503240045.QAA02493@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> 

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>> 
>> >> 
>> >> Terry Lambert writes:
>> >> > 
>> >> > 
>> >> > I have found this file to be corrupt.  Intel will mail you the spec
>> >> > and it will only take a couple of days if you call their 800 number
>> >> > for their doc department.  Or they may have fixed the file once I
>> >> > reported it to their FTP person.
>> >> > 
>> >> 
>> >> I thought so too, until I printed the file on a HP Laser Printer! 
>> >> 
>> >> Ghostscript views it fine too, but QMS, NCR and a few other printers
>> >> I tried barfed on it.
>> >
>> >Probably since it is is PS-Adobe-3.0 instead of 2.0:
>> >^[%-12345X@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = PostScript^M
>> >^D%!PS-Adobe-3.0^M
>> >
>> >Also note the ^[ and ^D on the first two lines, that probably confuses
>> >the h*ll out of a QMS or NCR printer.
>> 
>> I wouldn't expect many non-HP printers to understand HP's Printer Job 
>> Language.  Perhaps I should commit this addition to /etc/magic:
>> 
>> # 
>> # magic.pjl: HP Printer Job Language (PJL)
>> # 
>> 0       string          ^[%-12345X      HP PJL (printer job language) comman
>ds
>> 0       string          @PJL            HP PJL (printer job language) comman
>ds
>
>Is that what the funny stuff is, shows how much I deal with printers :-).
>
>YES PLEASE!!!
>
>I've never seen a file start @PJL, but you deal with this more than
>I do.  Also shouldn't the first one be ``^[%-12345X@PJL''.

That might be better since it would be odd for a job to have the PJL escape
sequence and not contain at least one PJL command.  According to my 4SIMx
manual, there isn't a cr/lf pair after the escape, so it should be safe to
include the "@PJL".

>
>-- 
>Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
>Accurate Automation Company                   Custom computers for FreeBSD

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Justin T. Gibbs
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