ditroff survey results

Fri Apr 22 11:57:31 AEST 1983

From: Lee.Moore
I few weeks ago I send out a survey for DITROFF drivers.   I  got two
replies  and they are summurized below.  In addition, we are currently
working on a  Xerox "Press" driver.  If you would like  to  be added to
this list, send me a note describing your driver.

=lee

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     Name of device: Merganthaler 202 (the one from Bell only works at Bell)
     Name of device: IBM 6670 laser printer
     Your name: Bill Lee (lee at utexas-11 or..!ucbvax!nbires!ut-ngp!lee)
     Your address: Univ. of Texas
		   Computation  Center,  COM  1,
		   Austin, Tx 78712
     Restrictions: ditroff license 
The 6670  filter  is  not  too slick  but it works. The 202 filter is
much improved over what we got from AT&T but it does have a few
problems  still,  e.g.  does not work perfectly with eqn.

     Name of device: Cannon Laser printer (Imprint-10)
     Your name: Dan Chernikoff
     Your address: dan at SRI-TSC
     Restrictions: Ditroff licence
     Cost: Free
When we here at SRI we got DITROFF to  use  on  a Canon   Imprint-10
laser  printer, and expected it to work right away, since the do-
cumentation (and even  Brian  Kernighan  him- self)   said   that
there was  a driver for the Canon.  Not so.  The driver that comes with
the tape could never have been run  on a  Canon.   Or  if  it  was,  it
was  a  VERY  old canon, because there were fundamental errors in the
output  language  from  dcan (and  lots of other bugs  as  well).
Anyway,  we  have gotten it to run, on a PDP 11/44 under 2.8+BSD.  We
also  have  a  program that  converts  the  Berkeley  versatek  fonts
to  work  with the Canon (actually it generates the DESC and .out
files, and we  use the same format for the glyph files as vtroff).