Braille Printing under Unix

[Dan Smith]

    Anybody seen a filter that takes ascii text and produces reasonible
braille output.  Assume that a reasonible output device exists to take
the xlated text and make into dot patterns.  I'm not sure of the specific
device name but I would be very interested in ANY software that does this
type of conversion no matter what the output hardware is!!  Please post
any pointers (indirect or otherwise).  Thanx in advance... And our local
lighthouse for blind thanks you...

                        Dan Smith (aka MadMan)
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