On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:58:39AM -0400, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> So what is the appropriate way to repair such a file before it gets to the
> printer, then?

if indeed it is the extra cr chars, you could 

cat file | tr -d \r | ifhp

or something like that.  tr is fast...
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> On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Henrik Edlund wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> >
> > RN> I am printing via the HP 2500cm driver for Win2k, which sends some PJL and
> > RN> says @PJL ENTER LANGUAGE=PCL3GUI. That's just fine. The problem is that
> > RN> 'file' claims that the file is of type 'data'. I vi'd the file, did
> > RN> nothing to it, saved it, and ran file again -- now it recognizes it as a
> > RN> HP Printer Job Language. The file appears to have the proper PJL header,
> > RN> with the ^[%-12345X -- forgive me if I'm getting that wrong off the top of
> > RN> my head. Unfortunately, though, as printed, file calls it data and runs
> > RN> off a page that says "No conversion available for type 'data'".
> > RN>
> > RN> Any clues here?
> >
> > Could it be the file contain CR (carriage return)? Windows machines puts
> > both NL and CR and end of lines. How it becomes "data" I don't know, but
> > as it was okay after you saved it (on UNIX I presume) it sounds familiar.
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