laser-lovers@uw-beaver (01/28/85)
From: GOURLAY-J%cis-20%ohio-state.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa As some of you already know, we at the Ohio State University are distributing a driver for the Xerox 2700 Model II laser printer. Our distribution actually includes a collection of TeX utility programs: (1) DVIX27, a device driver for the Xerox 2700 Model II laser printer, (2) DVILA, a device driver for the DEC Letterprinter 100 mechanical dot-matrix printers, (3) PXLPXL, a program for changing the resolution of Metafont's PXL files, needed especially to produce fonts for the non-square raster of the Letterprinter 100, (4) PXLTYP, a primitive program for displaying the contents of a PXL file on a line printer, (5) DVIDOC (a very primitive hack of DVITYP), a "device" driver and related material for producing on-line documentation files from DVI files, and (6) XLPR, a spooler for the Xerox 2700. All the programs, except for PXLTYP and XLPR, are written in Web and run on our DEC-20 under TOPS-20. Since they are written in Web, they should be easy to modify to run on other machines. PXLTYP is written in Pascal, and runs on the 20. XLPR is written in Clu and runs on our VAX under Berkeley Unix. Our distribution consists of a tape together with hard copy Web documentation for DVIX27, DVILA, and PXLPXL. Unless you tell us otherwise, the tape will be written unlabeled at 1600 bpi in TOPS-20 Dumper format. It will contain both source and executable versions of all the programs except XLPR, which, because of the machine difference, we send in source form only. We are charging $125. If you would like to order the distribution, please send a check payable to The Ohio State University to: Marty Marlatt The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science 2036 Neil Avenue Mall Columbus, Ohio 43210 Direct technical questions to me, John Gourlay, at the above address, phone (614) 422-6653, or CSNet gourlay@ohio-state. -------