townsend@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Mike Townsend) (10/19/87)
Does anyone out there know the whereabouts of a non - Modula-2 version of Andrew Trevorrow's DVItoVDU? A document written by Trevorrow indicates that it could most easily be ported to pascal. Has anyone accomplished a port to pascal, or C, or something else? If so, I'd be interested in finding out any details: language, machine, and operating system, etc. The machine I intend to run this on is an Elxsi 6400 in any of the 3 environments we have: EMBOS (Elxsi Message Based Operating System), EMS (Elxsi VMS), and BSD (Berkeley 4.2 Unix). Thanks. Mike Townsend 312-702-9349 Chicago, IL, USA townsend@oddjob.uchicago.edu ...!ihnp4!oddjob!townsend townsend%oddjob@uchimvs1.bitnet
rcst8@eutrc3.UUCP (PJ Schoenmakers) (07/25/88)
Hi! Currently, I'm busy (as practical work on our Univ.) porting the DVItoVDU previewer (for TeX, ofcourse) from VMS to Ultrix (=unix). As this doesn't seem to be much of a problem, it's almost finished. BUT I have a problem: All the sources were written by Andrew Trevorrow (at the University of Adelaide?) and he has included very much comments about revisions and that kind of stuff. So, my question to Andrew is about what to do with these comments and things like that. But, to ask him, I must contact him, and there's the _real_ problem. Thus: QUESTION: Who knows the/a address of Andrew Trevorrow, preferrably one on EARN/BITNET or UUCP?? Thanks in advance, Pieter 'Tiggr' Schoenmakers -"Would you like to have a PC?" -"No, thanks. I'd rather have a Mac without a Mouse; Doesn't matter much in functionality, anyway."
dao@cs.nott.ac.uk (David Osborne) (07/30/88)
In article <250@eutrc3.UUCP> rcst8@eutrc3.UUCP (PJ Schoenmakers) writes: >All the sources were written by Andrew Trevorrow (at the University >of Adelaide?) and he has included very much comments about revisions >and that kind of stuff. So, my question to Andrew is about what to >do with these comments and things like that. > >But, to ask him, I must contact him, and there's the _real_ problem. >Thus: QUESTION: Who knows the/a address of Andrew Trevorrow, preferrably >one on EARN/BITNET or UUCP?? Andy is working temporarily at the University of Aston, UK, until sometime in August, so if you're quick, you might just catch him at the address TREVORROWAK%uk.ac.aston@UKACRL.BITNET I discussed with Andy doing just such a port as you mention... have you translated to another language, or are you using a Unix Modula-2 compiler? dave -- David Osborne Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK Phone: +44 602 484848 x2064 JANET: dao@uk.ac.nott.cs BITNET: dao%uk.ac.nott.cs@ukacrl.bitnet ARPA: dao%uk.ac.nott.cs@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk or %ukacrl.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu UUCP: {...!mcvax}!ukc!nott-cs!dao
rcst8@eutrc3.UUCP (PJ Schoenmakers) (08/01/88)
In article <2815@robin.cs.nott.ac.uk>, dao@cs.nott.ac.uk (David Osborne) writes: > In article <250@eutrc3.UUCP> rcst8@eutrc3.UUCP (PJ Schoenmakers) writes: ... stuff deleted ... > >But, to ask him, I must contact him, and there's the _real_ problem. > >Thus: QUESTION: Who knows the/a address of Andrew Trevorrow, preferrably > >one on EARN/BITNET or UUCP?? > > Andy is working temporarily at the University of Aston, UK, until > sometime in August, so if you're quick, you might just catch him > at the address > TREVORROWAK%uk.ac.aston@UKACRL.BITNET > > I discussed with Andy doing just such a port as you mention... > have you translated to another language, or are you using > a Unix Modula-2 compiler? > > David Osborne Well, thanks to all people who sent me info about Andrew. About the question on the language: I just ported the Modula-2 version to our VAX/Ultrix machine, without -I think- using any special VAX tricks. (The modula compiler we use here is just another YACC-one.) So it will be made PD (of course). I am thinking about rewriting it to C, because I want to run it on the Acorn Archimedes, for which there is no Modula-2 compiler available. This brings me to another question: Has somebody got \TeX (or, preferrably \LaTeX) running on an Archimedes? I would be very interested to hear from anyone who has it running on a 1Mb (A310) machine with a harddisk. I think that, if I can get \TeX running on the Arc I'll rewrite DVItoVDU in C (ANSI-C, that is) and post it here, if anyone is interested. You'll here from me, when the Unix - Modula2 version is ready. Greetings, Pieter 'Tiggr' Schoenmakers --- - "Would you like to have a PC?" - "No, thanks. I'd rather have a Mac without a Mouse; doesn't matter much in funtionality, anyway."
jdc@naucse.UUCP (John Campbell) (09/30/88)
I've been using a VMS TeX previewer called DVItoVDU for a while. Recently we acquired a newer, better laser printer driver that could use packed files. DVItoVDU (our version) is written in Modula II. I remember seeing a note that someone (I hope) was converting this program to another language and including support for packed font files. I would love to have the source for DVItoVDU in a language that we "own". (I have nothing against Modula II except I don't have access to a compiler.) I do have 'C', Fortran, and Macro. Is there anyone who knows about this previewer and if there is a version that will use packed files? Are there other previewers that can handle, for instance, vt220's in text and sixel modes, vt240's in REGIS and TEK4010 modes, and Visual 623's in text and TEK4010 hi-res mode? (All I want is the world--who doesn't?) DVItoVDU, by the way, is close to satisfying all the above mentioned needs. A little tweaking and the VIS500 entry would work with my Visual 623... -- John Campbell ...!arizona!naucse!jdc unix? Sure send me a dozen, all different colors.