>My agency recently upgraded from SunOS 4.1.3 to Solaris 2.4. Ever since
>the upgrade we have been unable to print postscript files from our Novell
>network to our sparc printer. It seems that the end of each line in the
>file contains a ^M (carrot M) which corrupts the postscript
>interpretation.
>Could it be that the DOS carriage returns are being converted into carrot
>Ms by solaris? In the lpfilters I've noticed a filter called "catv" that
>changes non-printable characters to a printable character.
>Any ideas?
Two things come to mind. The first is windows based, and the second
a possible solution to ^Ms
If you are using a MS_windows based program to print, it sometimes
adds a ^D to the start of the postscript file. If you have any
filtering at all based on recognising this file as a postscript file,
this ^D will mess it up. If ^D is the first character of your postscript
file coming out of windows, then this is probably the culprit. To fix
it add "CtrlD=0" to the Postscript section in the win.ini (system.ini).
For more information see the printers.wri in the windows section.
The ^M is the Dos carriage return, I didn't think that this made a
difference to postscript printers, but I am quite likely wrong. There
are a few programs which remove these, all seem to be called dos2unix.
A version of this comes with PC-NFS. There are bound to be a few
PD versions.
Hopefully this helps you a little.
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