Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] papd problem - binary postscript
From: Robert O'Kane (okane@em.uni-frankfurt.de)
Date: Wed May 27 1998 - 14:57:24 EDT
Greetings,
I think this question has been asked atleast 3 different times in
the last 2 months. (And has been answered atleast so many times).
Take a look into the archives for this problem.
(Yes there is an answer to this problem)
Bob.
Les Klein wrote:
>
> > I saw someone has posted question about this, but no one replied.
> > The problem is:
> > When printing Postscipt file from Mac, something weird happens - papd
> > consumes 90% of CPU while processing something unknown. Only beginning of
> > the file is transmitted to the spool directory of lpr and nothing happens.
> > I was waiting about 20 minutes and had to cancel print job from the Mac. I
> > think something is wrong with the papd.
> > The file was a binary postscipt - for ascii postscript everything seems to
> > be ok.
> > The transmitted fragment of postscript ends just before the beginning of
> > binary data.
> > The same thing happens when I try to print this file not from Mac, but
> > using pap client.
> >
> I have the same problem. Also, papd never closes PAP properly if the very
> last character in a PostScript file is Ctrl-D ('\004'). Looking at the
> source code for 1.4b2 it looks like netatalk/papd can not work with binary
> files. It does however look quite easy to correct. Can anyone confirm/deny
> this or say if they have already modified the code before I have a go?
> Thanks
>
> Les Klein.
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