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Nothing quite as fun as piping a postscript to a printer in you college Unix lab and watching garbage being spewed out. Meanwhile due to misconfigured permissio
by pkaye 8y ago
Nothing quite as fun as piping a postscript to a printer in you college Unix lab and watching garbage being spewed out. Meanwhile due to misconfigured permissions, you cannot cancel the job. So you quietly shut of the printer and walk out of the lab.
- salgernon 8y agoI tried to teach myself postscript by writing directly to the new laserprinters at school .. and was met the next day by a very angry grad student sysadmin waving two reams of mostly postscript error pages. Something about not being in his accounting budget since I was an undergrad annoyed him. Fortunately, he decided that the only solution was to give me access to his departments new Sun workstations running NeWS.
- DonHopkins 8y agoYou should have installed the PostScript error handler that prints up giant posters of your error messages and stack dumps scaled and tiled across many pages in a gargantuan font. Maybe they would have given you a really big printer instead of a Sun running NeWS.