I have collected below some of your emails about how you go about printing postscript files.
See FAQs for information about postscript files.
Basically, every NYU student has access to a UNIX account through their email account at ACF (usually on machines named ``IS*.ACF.NYU.EDU''). When you enter this account, you initially encounter a "mail shell" that assumes that you wish to do email. But you can get access to other services as well. For one thing, you can escape from the "mail shell" by typing "!" (exclamation mark, or "bang", as they call this in computer science). Once you are in unix, you can send your file to any selected printer by typing at the unix prompt
Of course, there are lots of other things you can do within UNIX (e.g, "ls" will list your files and "man ls" will give you help on the ls command). To get back to your "mail shell", you can type "exit" at the unix prompt.
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 17:58:30 -0400 (EDT) From: RuhinyTo: Chee Yap Professor Yap, You can upload the file to your own email account, and use the "lpr" print command to print it, i have no trouble printing it. Just want to let you know. Thank you for your time. Ruhiny
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 17:54:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael HomTo: yap@cs.nyu.edu Subject: postscript viewer Professor Yap: I discovered an alternate method to view the postscript files. If everyone could go to http://www.windows95.com and go to the "search" page, enter postscript. Choose the first hyperlink to "Imaging and OCR tools." Scroll down until you see "RoPS 32" It is a shareware postscript viewer. It will work on windows 3.1 and win95. This program allows the user to view the PS file (similar to a PDF file). However, printing is not very good. The program allows you to copy the text of the image (OCR about 85-90 percent accuracy). You can then paste the text into any text editor (Notepad, MS Word, etc...). Then, just print from there on. It's not perfect, but it's pretty close. Professor Yap, would you consider putting the assignments in HTML format so that everyone would be able to view and then print the file with ease? Thank you. ************************** Michael Hom E-mail: mh204@is5.nyu.edu Home Page: http://pages.nyu.edu/~mh204 ( NEW & IMPROVED!!! )
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 17:45:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Wai-Hang LamTo: Wai K Lam Cc: v22_0201_002_fl97@cs.nyu.edu Subject: Re: assignment 1 and printing problems On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Wai K Lam wrote: > I have printed the homework successfully at the Tisch Hall LC lab. You > need to send the postscript file to printer th_hp4si_1 for it to work. It > is the only printer that I know of that can actually print it. You need > to download the file into your unix account and print it from there. > > Wai K. Lam > I've just try to print the file in the lab at Tisch Hall. Both th_hp4si_1 & th_hp3si_1 work. For those who don't know: - For IS accounts, to select a printer go to "ACCOUNT" --> "ENVIRONMENT" from the main menu. - To print a file, go to "FILES" --> "PRINT" from the main menu and type in the file you want to print out. Hope this helps, Jackie
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 17:12:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Kristjan VarnikTo: Chee Yap Subject: Re: assignment 1 and printing problems On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Chee Yap wrote: > I discovered that the acf labs are not > capable (at present) to handle postscript > files, but they will try to work on a solution. > you can print the ps file in the washington place labs using lpr, they recently installed the driver or whatever