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- From: cballen@hubcap.clemson.edu (charles allen)
- Subject: Re: printing postscript files
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.214245.23982@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Organization: Clemson University
- References: <1992Jul31.083417.845@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> <4wqm49n@lynx.unm.edu> <BsMK8D.8Mu@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Aug10.080425.23762@news.uni-stuttgart.de>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 21:42:45 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- skok@itwds1.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Holger Skok) writes:
-
- >>||
- >>||How could a .ps postscript file be printed in the Win 3.1
- >>||environment? Since we can't use an editor to open it and print
- >>||from within editor.
- >>||
- >>|
- >>|Shell to dos, then type:
- >>|copy /b FILENAME.ps LPT1
- >>| ^^^^
- >>| |
- >>| Use the number for the port that the printer is attached to.
- >>|
- >>
- >>... Or how about dragging and dropping it onto the print
- >>manager?
- >Naah, it won't. Dropping a file on the printmanager will start the
- >program that is registered for that file type (-extension) and call the
- >corresponding print command. You'd have to have a dump-program that you
- >could register for the *.ps-files in order for drag and drop printing to
- >work.
-
- Could the DOS copy command be manually added to WIN.INI as the command
- to call for all .PS files? In the Extensions section I think? Or
- was that only for Win 3.0? That way you could double-click the name of
- the file from filemanager and boom, it prints.
-
- -Charles Allen
- CBALLEN@CLEMSON.CLEMSON.EDU
- 8/15
-