We have an application that produces reports as plain text files,
and we have old-fashioned printers that know only postscript. What
is the best approach in sending the reports to these printers? They
are all remote printers out on the network somewhere, and a coworker
tells me the in-filter 'if' does not work with remote printers!
Should we be using out-filters, aka 'of'?
Could we get some sample 'of' scripts that any of you have seen or
written that will take a plain text file, convert it to postscript
before sending it out for printing?
Thanks muchly,
PS. I guess the version of OS doesn't matter here, but if you need
to know, it is DIGITAL UNIX 4.0b!
-- mahendra
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A. Mahendra Rajah Email: Mahendra_at_Meena.CC.URegina.CA
VMS & DUNIX Systems Manager Phone: (306) 585-4496
Dept. of Computing Services FAX: (306) 585-5060
University of Regina,
Regina, Sask., S4S 0A2
Canada.
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Received on Thu Dec 10 1998 - 21:43:57 NZDT