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- From: grun@tao.cpe.uchicago.edu (Glenn Carnagey)
- Subject: Re: Help with .tar & .ps files with Mac!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.200603.18485@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Organization: Center for Population Economics
- References: <1993Jan12.170530.10782@midway.uchicago.edu> <1993Jan15.210921.12916@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:06:03 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan15.210921.12916@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com> ckr2196@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com (Caryn K. Roberts) writes:
- >From article <1993Jan12.170530.10782@midway.uchicago.edu>, by scb1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Samuel C. Blackman):
- >> I've got a bit of a problem, which I've been trying to solve on my own to
- >> no avail, so I appeal to the wisdom of the net ...
- >>
- >> I'm trying to get ahold of a copy of "Zen & the Art of Internet". Simple
- >> enough, right? Well it seems that I can only find it either in .tar format
- .....
- >>
- >> So now I ask you. How do I print a copy of Zen & the Art of Internet onto
- >> paper? How do I convert .tar files to Mac text files, or .ps files to
- >> files which my piddly little Mac can interpret?
-
- If you're using MS Word, there is a builtin postscript "style". Just
- select the entire document and apply the style. If it's the first
- time you've ever used the style, it won't show up in the list of
- styles in the box, so you type in the name like it's a new style.
- Afterwards it will show in the list. Otherwise MS Word thinks it's
- just another document. Another way to do this on the Unix side is to
- set the PRINTER variable to one of the public laserwriters, and use a
- postscript filter like ps, gs, or ts, like: lpr -Pps 'document'.
-
- >There are two solutions. StuffIt Deluxe 3.04 will unTAR. Or if you prefer
- >the .ps file you _download_ that file to your postscript printer. Most
- >PS printers come with a utility to download a file to the printer.
-
- Laser Font Utility is one such utility, but I'm not sure the public
- machines have such utilities.
-
- Pax ex machina,
- Glenn
- g-carnagey@uchicago.edu
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