Subject: [netatalk-admins] .gz's are showing up as TEXT UNIX...
From: Jesse Reynolds (lizst@va.com.au)
Date: Wed Nov 04 1998 - 05:33:31 EST
Hi there
I have a file ending in ".gz" and it's type and creator are TEXT and UNIX
respectively, despite atalk/etc/AppleVolumes.system containing the
following line:
.gz Gzip Gzip
why would this be happening? Of course it causes corruption when copied
onto my mac via appletalk...
Solaris 2.5.1 Sparc 2, asun patched netatalk
cheers
jesse
At 3:18 PM -0600 3/11/1998, Craig Johnston wrote:
>Ok -- I'm serving out an HPLJ 6MP to a bunch of macs over an ethernet
>with a FreeBSD box running netatalk 1.4b2.
>
>The problem is that some apps on the mac clients are sending level 3
>postscript rather than level 2. The printer only supports level 2,
>and the ppd file I specify in papd.conf specifies level 2.
>
>Now, when the clients print to the server, shouldn't they be asking
>papd about the printer, getting back the info that it only supports
>up to level 2, and sending level 2 postscript instead of level 3?
>
>Or do the clients need local .ppd files for the printer? (why should they?)
>
>The offending programs are Adobe Pagemaker and Adobe Photoshop --
>I have checked that they are indeed producing legit level 3 output.
>
>Is there a standard way for mac apps to decide what sort of PS they are
>going to output? Why are these apps apparently failing to determine
>they can't just shoot out level 3?
>
>Is it in fact that all apps are sending whatever they like, and that
>just happens to almost always be ps <= level 2, and these 2 apps are
>the only ones that will generate level 3? Is it up to the app to find
>a .ppd file and modify its output accordingly? Up to the OS?
>
>thanks,
>Craig
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