"HB" == Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> writes:
HB> It may be possible to log into your Postscript printer over the network via telnet, although I haven't tried it. If it has port 9100 support, then just telnet to it on port 9100 and run the executive command. If the printer supports multiple page descrition languages and is configured to auto-detect them, you'll need to send a %! comment first to swtich to postscript: :; telnet printer 9100 %! executive %% it reports some comments, include a copyright PS> They generally will echo back what you send after you send it; most telnet clients send a line at a time and do local echoing, too, so it looks something like: PS>4 5 add sqrt 4 5 add sqrt PS>= = 3.0 PS> (Note that = pops the stack, so say dup = to non-destructively see what is on the stack.) -JimC -- James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6