I wrote a few programs in postscript using Word for the Apple LaserWriter II ntx because I was bored. If the text attributes are just so, the printer executes it as a PostScript page. It's stack oriented and I like RPN (Reverse Polish Notation), however I HATE the programming language LISP which is recursive programming.
I needed to do something really weird in a free PC Layout program, EasyTrax, for part of a board, so I outputted the generated PS output to a file and modified the file and fed it to the printer using LPR. I would not dream of doing that in PCL6.
PCL6 is a bunch of non human readable characters. With PostScript the printer needs memory to image the entire page before spitting it out. With PCL6, I don't think that's entirely true. I have a reference manual. And besides, I haven't yet figured out how to get printers, in general, to work under the Cygwin environment under Windows.
A few good uses for Cygwin; a free sFTP server/client, can delete windows files using wild cards, can list and print a Windows directory.
KISS
PS: Do you ever check your Private Messages?
Why don't you turn on PM message notification?
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