m-liu@eastend.columbia.edu (Micky Liu) (10/28/88)
Two Questions, Two Questions in one Posting! 1) I have to get a small Unix box in the next month to use a server for some very small database. I thought we could save some money if we get a 386 box and run some form of Unix on it. Since my only experience is with larger boxes (68K's and Convex's), I thought I'd glean some insight from the net. Do any of you have any experiences with 386 machines running Unix (SYSV or BSD) and does it support NFS? Good and bad experiences are welcome. I am looking for some real opinions so easy on those "... I heard from an uncle of a friend whose sister works for somebody that uses...", okay? 2) I have just got TeX up and running on my machines, but am missing an important part... I need something like a dvi2HPLaserJet... That's right, I have a bunch of those HP printers, but they're all rather useless to me right now since I don't have a dvi driver for them. I tried to compile the dvi2lj that comes on the distribution tape, but it seems to depend too much on the HP 1000 Pascal compiler... I know that there is a forum for TeX questions, but I haven't been able to get to it yet, sorry... Please send all responses to me and if there is enough interest, I will be more than happy to post a summary to the net. Thanking you all in advance! Micky Liu Columbia University arpa: micky@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu iceman@cuchmc.chem.columbia.edu uucp: ...!rutgers!columbia!eastend!m-liu bitnet: malua@cuvmc PICK HIT OF THE WEEK: "IM NIN'ALU" -- Ofra Haza on Shanachie Records