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From: "David S. Chappell" <David.Chappell@mail.trincoll.edu>
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 11:03:00 -0500
Subject: Re: PPR: papsrv problem

At 12:53 PM 02/08/2000 +0100, Pavol Ferko wrote:
>Hi,
>
>To day I print without problem, but now I can't print from one Mac. In
>papsrv log is this error message:
>"Your new print job for "A4" has been rejected by PPR because of a
>fatal error: qentry->ForLine is entirely whitespace.

This error message means that a basic sanity check has failed.  These
sanity checks are intended to prevent the generation of unparsable queue
files.

The Mac puts a line that begins with "%%For:" in the PostScript job.  This
line gives the name of the user.  This information is used to identify jobs
in the queue.  It appears that in the case of the Mac that can't print,
this line consists entirely of spaces, tabs, etc.  Could the owner name (or
whatever they call it) on the Macintosh be set to something silly?

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