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- From: (Tim Keitt)
- Subject: re: Suppressing the Ctrl-D prepend on Postscript files
- Message-ID: <lnar2_g@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 20:05:06 GMT
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM
- References: <1992Dec16.221239.29946@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- Reply-To: tkeitt@algodones.unm.edu
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- In article <1992Dec16.221239.29946@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> rww@mugwump.cl.msu.edu (Richard W. Wiggins) writes:
- >Several folks gave advice on suppressing the damnable desire of
- >Windows to prepend a Ctrl-D to Postscript print files. The advice was
- >to add to WIN.INI:
- >
- >[PostScript,LPT2]
- >ATM=placeholder
- >ctrld=0
- >
- >[PostScript,COM1]
- >ATM=placeholder
- >ctrld=0
- >
- >...and to add the 'ctrld=' wherever a printer or port was defined.
- >I did so, and the problem persists. In my case, I'm printing to
- >a file, not to a printer port. So I added the assignment statement
- >anywhere that seemed remotely resident. Still Windows slavishly adds
- >the Ctrl-D. (And yes I did reboot...)
- >
- >Any other suggestions? Is it possible this doesn't work for prints to
- >user-specified file names? Is it too much to ask for Microsoft to
- >document this, or better yet provide a visible switch to turn it off?
- >
- >/Rich Wiggins, Michigan State U
-
- Try CtrlD=0, not ctrld=0. I think the *.ini files are case
- sensetive (somebody post a correction if I'm wrong!). Why do
- you have PostScript connected to LPT2 and COM1 if your printing
- to a user specified file? My win.ini reads [Postscript,FILE].
-
- Your right that this 'feature' is poorly documented and
- implemented. But then windows boxes connected to UNIX servers
- don't seem to be MS's priority (witness WfWG). Too much public
- domain thinking (you know, subversive open standards kind of
- stuff) in 'those'(UNIX) circles is my guess.
-
- --
- Timothy Keitt
- tkeitt@algodones.unm.edu
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