Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!BBN.COM!haverty From: haverty@BBN.COM (Jack Haverty) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: PostScript Versus ASCII Message-ID: <8910021348.AA26853@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 2 Oct 89 12:39:13 GMT References: <8909301233.aa05407@huey.udel.edu> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 23 Another idea into the fray: MCIMail has a capability which allows me to send it a message for paper delivery, by running any program on my Macintosh and "Print"ing to a special output device which creates a file instead of actual output (i.e., a pseudo-device). I then tell MCIMail that this is an "image" message, which causes it to laser-print it and deliver the hardcopy. I'm not sure whether the "image" is actually postscript. It's also a bit clunky since I have to send any particular message twice - once to recipients who can accept it electronically and deal with it (i.e. they have a Mac), and once to recipients who need hadcopy. It does work however, and demonstrates that there *could* be a server somewhere on the Internet to which the sender, or receiver, of a document could send that document and get a hardcopy delivered. It might make sense to even offer two qualities of output (QOS bits at layer 7!), one for laser-print, and one for FAX (which could be delivered to most people directly as well). Comments? Anyone got something like this working yet? Jack