Subject: PC-Pine with IBM 4019E

From: [email-masked] (Robin Goodall)
Date: 6 Apr 1995 14:52:18 GMT

I'm trying to get PC-Pine (LWP version) to print messages to an
IBM 4019E printer in postscript mode. When you tell pine to print 
the lights flash on the printer indicating that it's getting the 
data but then it just resets itself back to normal and doesn't 
print anything. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas.

Robin

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From: Brent Blumenstein <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 09:23:24 -0700 (PDT)

I have a similar problem under OS/2.  My take is that the OS/2 telnet 
program is sending the "print to attached ansi" stuff to the print queue 
without any consideration of formatting for postscript, and the print 
manager isn't smart enough (or hasn't been told enough information) to 
know to ask whether the stuff being queued is postscipt.  In other 
situations under OS/2 the print manager is very smart - like when I drag 
an icon to a postscript printer is always asks (and does so for other 
printers as well).  I was thinking this was an OS/2 to pine interaction 
problem, but if you are not using OS/2 then other systemns have the same 
kind of problem.

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