Printronix 300 answer
suitti at CSvax
suitti at CSvax
Thu Sep 29 02:44:53 AEST 1983
I haven't been able to reply with mail for a while. Therefore I post it.
*** nroff for Printronix 300 ***
We run a pdp 11/44, 2.8 bsd. We have a couple printronix 300's. We
have nroff for the beast, with filters to do all kinds of wierdness, thought
only to be available to troff. The package must include:
Typeset: a shell script to drive it. One says: typeset [opts] files..
peqn: an eqn derivitive. Modified in somewhat non-standard ways.
npf: the Nroff to Printronix Filter. It does the alternate character
fonts, reverse linefeeds (not many on the 11/44), etc.
texdefs: a file of definitions to make the odd characters available.
Note: We are a physics department, therefore some things are geared
physics.
We haven't changed nroff or tbl (to my knowledge). I can send sources
for the other things. I would also send a bunch of test files (examples).
The printronix 300 has "half dots". These are overlaping & are used
in normal printing. Half dots are poorly documented. Their use was figured
out by experimentation. Some sites have had trouble getting thier printer
to do them. If required, I can send you our "opr".
Cost, etc:
I don't want any money. We are going to have to figure out how to
get the stuff to you, if you want it. I don't recomend the usenet.
I can get to Arpa, if required. There is always 1600 bpi tape & US mail
(called "Walknet"). My addresses are:
...pur-ee!pur-phy:suitti Stephen Uitti
...purdue!pur-phy:suitti Dept of Physics
Purdue University
W. Lafayette, In 47907
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