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Date:      Thu, 23 Mar 1995 16:45:54 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Justin T. Gibbs)
Cc:        hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: SMP work
Message-ID:  <199503240045.QAA02493@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199503240034.QAA06609@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Mar 23, 95 04:34:06 pm

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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) commands
> 0       string          @PJL            HP PJL (printer job language) commands

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''.

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



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