steve@ncsc (Stephen Mahan) (06/05/86)
Here at the Naval Coastal Systems Center we have about eight HP Laserjet
printers. We are driving them from a VAX 750 using UNIX bsd 4.2 . We are
looking for a good nroff or troff type text formatter. Ideally it would be
able to use proportional spacing, font selection, and the advaced features
of the Laserjet plus. We have tried the system from Elan software but
discovered that:
1. It replaces our existing nroff/troff libraries and is not conpatible
feature-for-feature with the old nroff.
2. The printer must be installed on a dedicated port.
This second item is a major drawback because most of our printers are
installed in individual offices around the base connected to 9600 baud
terminals and/or are used with software on an IBM PC.
Any help or suggestions will be appreciated.
ARPA: steve@ncsc
ATT: (904) 234-4224
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