jimmy@denwa.uucp (Jim Gottlieb) (10/19/89)
Just wondering if anyone has any positive or negative comments wrt
using a Laser Printer on a 3B1. As far as I know, Smart is the only
word processor that supports laser printers. Does anyone know of
others?
(I'm not counting the troff packages available. Troff would be a bit
much for the office personnel.)
Thanks...
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Jim Gottlieb
E-Mail: <jimmy@denwa.uucp> or <jimmy@pic.ucla.edu> or <attmail!denwa!jimmy>
V-Mail: (213) 551-7702 Fax: 478-3060 The-Real-Me: 824-5454john@chinet.chi.il.us (John Mundt) (10/19/89)
In article <332@denwa.uucp> denwa!jimmy@anes.ucla.edu (Jim Gottlieb) writes: >using a Laser Printer on a 3B1. As far as I know, Smart is the only >word processor that supports laser printers. Does anyone know of others? CrystalWriter Plus will support a Laserprinter on a 3b1. Alas, the company has stopped porting its upgrades to the 3b1, so the version of the wordprocessor out there is not all that great. Company that produces it is Syntactics, based in CA. -- --------------------- John Mundt Teachers' Aide, Inc. P.O. Box 1666 Highland Park, IL john@chinet.chi.il.us (312) 998-5007 (Day voice) || -432-8860 (Answer Mach) && -432-5386 Modem
horn@rt3.cs.wisc.edu (Mark Horn) (10/20/89)
In article <332@denwa.uucp> denwa!jimmy@anes.ucla.edu (Jim Gottlieb) writes: >Just wondering if anyone has any positive or negative comments wrt >using a Laser Printer on a 3B1. As far as I know, Smart is the only >word processor that supports laser printers. Does anyone know of >others? Hey, you have a word processor on a 3b1? What do I have to do to get one? I don't have a printer, yet, because I saw no need to get one when I couldn't do papers on my machine, but a word processor...? >Thanks... >-- > Jim Gottlieb > E-Mail: <jimmy@denwa.uucp> or <jimmy@pic.ucla.edu> or <attmail!denwa!jimmy> > V-Mail: (213) 551-7702 Fax: 478-3060 The-Real-Me: 824-5454 Please please please, anyone send me some info... - sparkie -- p.s. Please reply to one of the following addresses and NOT the one listed above. Thanks! ___ ___ ___ ___ _ _ _ ___ / __\| . \/ . \| . \| |/ /|_|| _ | \___\| __/| || _ /| < | || _[ \___/|_| |_|_||_|\\|_|\_\|_||___| ARPA: madnix!harier!sparkie@cs.wisc.edu UUCP: ...{harvard|rutgers|ucbvax}!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!harier!sparkie
sac@conrad.UUCP (Steven A. Conrad) (10/22/89)
In article <332@denwa.uucp> denwa!jimmy@anes.ucla.edu (Jim Gottlieb) writes: >Just wondering if anyone has any positive or negative comments wrt >using a Laser Printer on a 3B1. As far as I know, Smart is the only ... >(I'm not counting the troff packages available. Troff would be a bit >much for the office personnel.) I beg to differ. Our office staff (secretaries, administrative assistants, and faculty) have been using troff for years, including grap, pic, etc. They have no complaints, and like the ability to easily interface to data generated by other programs. My 10 year old son uses troff to type his book reports, with the -mm macro package. Took about 15 minutes of instruction to get him going with the basics. (He likes emacs for entering text, too). All it takes is for your office personnel to have just a *little* bit of incentive. Give them a little bit of credit. -- Steven A. Conrad, Department of Medicine (Critical Care) Louisiana State University Medical Center, Shreveport, LA UUCP: sac@conrad.UUCP, Internet: conrad@manta.pha.pa.us "I think there is a world market for about five computers" TJ Watson Jr, 1943
doug@marque.mu.edu (10/22/89)
Our office staff and faculty members use troff for letters, reports, papers, and all sorts of other things. It takes a very short time to break someone in to use troff, and the portability and flexibility help to justify the breaking in. It helps of course if you have a screen-based previewer available, and a laser printer is a must. On our campus Tex is the language of choice outside this department for such matters; this includes such things as dissertations in the philosophy and theology departments. Within our department Tex is used for papers in mathematics in general. Our public safety office uses troff/nroff extensively. The point is: quit listening to those folks who say that grap/pic/troff are hard to teach and hard to learn and spend some time teaching and learning it. You'll be suprised.