message to Anders (userid "ath")

[Ed Arnold]

A message for Anders (userid "ath"), somewhere in Scandinavia:

Thanks for your advice.  Unfortunately, my return mail to you bounced,
so perhaps you'll see this posting.  Doing a reply to what was in
your header, resulted in "To: megatest!helios!ath at pyramid.com",
which bounced from helios.  Chances are replies from others are
bouncing, too, so if you'd like to send me (era at ncar.ucar.edu) another
message, I'll take a look at it and see if I can figure out what's
causing the problem.

This was my reply to your original message:

Thanks for the suggestions.  You were exactly right, all I had to do
to get past the "statusdict" line, was to put that "serverdict begin
0 exitserver" line in front of it.

Unfortunately, there's some other stuff in the Apple dictionary
that Imagen's postscript implementation won't process.  Another net
person pointed out to me that lines containing "//setrealdevice"
and "//execjob" are LaserWriter-specific stuff ... this stuff is
found in the Apple dictionary in about lines 10-14.  Imagen's
interpreter gets pretty upset about it.

Fortunately, it turns out that Imagen has provided a way around
all this.  One deletes the Apple dictionary from his file(s),
and replaces it with a command "(dictv52.ps)run" to read in
a LaserPrep-compatible dictionary from the Imagen's disk.
Things are printing fine now, and less of the host/printer link
is being eaten up by those damned dictionaries.

Ed Arnold
era at ncar.ucar.edu
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