Re: outputting postscript to a printer

[Dan Kimmel<dkimmel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you're very clever you can do this with the print API's. You'll have to 
use the API's to format a user space with the file and page headers and 
then write the postscript stream into the user space as prescribed by the 
API. I did this once for TIFF files to a HP5si equipped with a TIFF card. 
Went to the printer through a RMTOUTQ. Worked like a champ until the 
printer wore out and they tried to replace it with a printer that didn't 
understand TIFF. Then they got piles and piles of paper with gobldy-gook 
all over it.

Dan





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I have an RPG program that creates postscript.  I need to send it 
unchanged to a printer.  I can't use a print file because that will then 
send an SCS print job and that won't work.  Any ideas on how to do this?

James Rich

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