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[rkeeley@xxxxxxxxx (Roy Keeley)]

Wolfgang,
And now I know! Thanks for explaining it.

Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Trying to kill the keyboard, rkeeley@xxxxxxxxx produced:
> > I don't answer you as I have NO experience with using "raw", I mean "lpr
> > -Praw". I have often wondered why that is offered in there for a choice,
>
> Well, in German there are these funny letters: an a,A,o,O or u,U with 2
> dots above them and the sharp s. These are not in the 128 ASCII code
> signs, so -Pascii assumes these texts not to be texts and puts them
> through the gs - filter. Now, sometimes you just want to dump the data
> onto the printer (it's much faster, especially if you don't own a laser
> printer), for other people, the ghostscript does not work properly
> (yet).
>
> So sometimes you'd need to force raw.
>
> -Wolfgang
>
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