campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) (01/03/86)
[This is a reposting, since it appears that the original never made
it out, for completely unknown reasons. Apologies if in fact this is
a duplicate for some people.]
This is a followup to Message-ID: <189@maynard.UUCP>, posted to
net.text and net.wanted.sources, in which I asked for "quality text
output cheap".
I received replies from the following people (sorry if I've missed
anyone, perhaps uucp ate your mail):
cybvax0!foxvax5!spec2 (W.R. Brown (Warren))
seismo!ut-sally!nbires!rcd (Dick Dunn)
cmcl2!rna!dan (Dan Ts'o)
seismo!noao!terak!suze (Suzanne Barnett)
mirror!rs (Rich Salz)
lasspvax.tn.cornell.edu:ihnp4!vax135!cornell!olson (Todd Olson)
genrad!ihnp4!uiucdcs!uxa.CSO.UIUC.EDU!uxe.CSO.UIUC.EDU!koenker
Charlie C. Kim <genrad!packard!topaz!columbia!cucca!cck>
genrad!seismo!munnari!elecvax.oz!stephenf
Most people suggested `ptroff' or `Transcript' from Adobe Systems.
These sounded nice, except that I wrote misleadingly in my note when
I said "probably PostScript", since we have an HP LaserJet and not
an Apple LaserWriter. (I was just being pessimistic and assuming
we'd need to go out and buy a LaserWriter).
Well, it turns out that a Cambridge (Mass.) company called Textware has
a product called `tplus' that fills the bill nicely. It's a port of
the AT&T Documenter's Workbench along with drivers for the HP LaserJet
and LaserJet+. We're a beta test site now for the Venix/86 port, and
so far (after two days of use) it seems to work quite well.
Thanks again for all the responses!
[PS - as of this reposting, we've been using tplus for a month, and it's
performed flawlessly. I recommend it.]
--
Larry Campbell The Boston Software Works, Inc.
ARPA: maynard.UUCP:campbell@harvard.ARPA 120 Fulton Street
UUCP: {harvard,cbosgd}!wjh12!maynard!campbell Boston MA 02109colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) (01/09/86)
[Feed your head] > This is a followup to Message-ID: <189@maynard.UUCP>, posted to > net.text and net.wanted.sources, in which I asked for "quality text > output cheap". > ... > Most people suggested `ptroff' or `Transcript' from Adobe Systems. What's "ptroff?" If it's well known, I'd better change the name of our local vtroff simulator for the Printronix P-600 to something other than "ptroff!" (What does this have to do with quality text output!?) -- Col. G. L. Sicherman UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel CS: colonel@buffalo-cs BI: csdsicher@sunyabva