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- From: dtaylor@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Douglas A Taylor)
- Subject: Re: PS printer on file?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.153328.1804@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:33:28 GMT
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- In article <EBU.92Dec20123924@lk-hp-14.hut.fi> ebu@snakemail.hut.fi (Erik Bunn) writes:
- >
- >I just had a chance to play around with GEOS for a bit. Looks snd
- >feels nice, but I wasn't able to set a printer on a file.
- >If I were to use GEOS at home, this would be necessary.
-
- Your Subject: line implies that you want to print to a Postscript
- printer. If that's the case, then you're in luck. When you have
- selected a Postscript printer, the Print menu of GeoWrite (and
- probably other GeoApps) gives you three option -- "Print", "Print to
- file", and "Cancel". You simply select "Print to file".
-
- If you're using a different kind of printer, then things are a bit
- more complicated. You have to use a DOS TSR of some sort to capture
- output to your printer port and save it to a file. Novell's CAPTURE
- utility will do it for you if you're hooked up to a NetWare LAN.
-
- There's another program on the Simtel archives called VPRINT (I think;
- someone will correct me if I'm wrong) that does the same thing. It's
- in the GeoWorks directory. I don't know of a Finnish Simtel mirror
- (Garbo maybe?), but if you want to try a trans-Atlantic ftp, check out
- wuarchive.wustl.edu in /mirrors/msdos/geoworks. If you have trouble
- getting it, send me some e-mail and I'll see if I can be of further
- help.
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