What is the printer waiting for? and waiting..waiting..waiting

[Wain Dobson]

In article <400 at twg.bc.ca> bill at twg.bc.ca (Bill Irwin) writes:
=We  are  trying  something new:  to print a PageMaker file  to  a
=postscript  printer configured on FILE (rather than a real port),
=then  sending the file through a communication program (with  DOS
=to  Unix file conversion) to our SCO Xenix 2.3.2 system, then  do
="lp -dlaser file_name".
=
Somehow in all this, I imagine that "laser" is a postscript
interface and that you have a postscript cartdige, etc. in
the laser jet. Or "laser" is actually a translator, translating
the ps into hpcl. Hopefully!!!
-- 
Wain Dobson, Vancouver, B.C.
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