TeXhax@Score.Stanford.EDU (TeXhax Digest) (07/14/88)
TeXhax Digest Wednesday, July 13, 1988 Volume 88 : Issue 63
Moderator: Malcolm Brown
Today's Topics:
Immoderate Notes: new version of the FONTMEMO available
\halign question
LaTeX footnotes
Re: DVIEW previewer
NSF Proposal Tools
LATEX: For what paper-sizes are standard styles/options designed?
TeX for VAX/VMS and an LN01
Re: marks
Crudetype changes for NOS/VE
Don Knuth's Oration
problem with caption in LaTeX
TeX for a PC without hard disk
DVI previewer for PC/MS-DOS
TeX source for PC/MS-DOS
Cyrillic fonts for LN03 printer
Driver for a Printronics P600?
DVI to Postscript for CMS
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From: Malcolm
Date: 12 July 1988
Subject: Immoderate Notes: new version of the FONTMEMO available
%%% Dominik Wujastyk has submitted a new version of his font memo. It has
%%% been prepared for printing with LaTeX. The entire file is nearly
%%% 100K in length and is available for FTP via Internet from the machine
%%% score.stanford.edu. The file lives under the TOPS20 directory
%%% <TEX.TEXHAX> and the file name is "FONTMEMO.TXH". The file contains
%%% a total of four submissions to TeXhax: the first two are Dominik's
%%% notes on the memo, the third is a LaTeX style and the fourth is the
%%% memo itself.
%%% I have sent a copy on to the list server at TAMVM1 for the folks on
%%% BITNET.
%%% Since this version supercedes an earlier version, I'll be deleting the
%%% file WUJASTYK.TXH on Score, which contains the previous version.
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Date: Mon 4 Jul 88 15:40:41-MDT
From: Brent Carruth <MA.CARRUTH@SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU>
Subject: \halign question
I am trying to typeset an example for a linear algebra class that
shows a linear system of equations and the augmented matrix of the
linear system side by side. I wish to typeset the linear system using
\halign and the augmented matrix using \begin{array}...\end{array}.
This is what I do
\halign to<dimen>{preamble \cr
...........................\cr
...........................\cr}
%
$\left( \begin{array}{rrrrr}
...........................\\
...........................
\end{array} \right)$
where <dimen> is the width needed to typeset the linear system.
However, instead of appearing next to each other horizontally they
appear next to each other vertically.
A not-so-elegant way of getting the two to line up is to type
\hskip <dimen> \vskip -<dimen>. How do I tell TeX (or LaTeX) to align
the two horizontally by itself?
Many thanks
Brent Carruth MA.CARRUTH@SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU
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Date: Tue, 5 Jul 88 09:06:54 EDT
From: HOOVER <anita@vax1.acs.udel.edu>
Subject: LaTeX footnotes
I sent this on June 13th but it never made, so here it is again.
I am trying to change the placement of footnotes when there is not enough
text to fill to the bottom of a page. In the example below I force the
figure to start at the top of the next page, there is now white space that
occurs on the first page. I would like LaTeX to always flush footnotes to
the bottom of the page, instead of putting the footnote right after the text.
Has anyone successfully changed this. The output routine for TeX seems to
do what I want, but I can not find the appropriate change to do the same
in LaTeX. I have been looking at the ouput routines for LaTeX, but am
taking the advice about the warning on page 204 of the LaTeX manual
regarding \output parameter changes.
Here is the example I am using to try to get the footnote on the first
page to be flushed at the bottom, rather than right after the text.
Anita Hoover
University of Delaware
Internet : anita@vax1.acs.udel.edu
Bitnet : ACS03174 at UDACSVM
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\documentstyle [12pt] {report}
\begin{document}
\chapter{MyDots}
The coercive force, $H_{C}$, and the remnant magnetism, $B_{R}$, have been
investigated\footnote{This the first note so I will try to make it a long one
so that we can see the spacing for footnotes---spread 1, spread 1 for each
footnote. This will be the test case for long footnotes.}
as a function of temperature and post manufacture processing. A microcomputer
based data acquisition system was developed to record and analyze the AC
hysteresis cycle as the amorphous materials under go the investigated phase
transition from the ferromagnetic state to paramagnetic state. The
investigated coercive force is known to be a structure sensitive parameter and
is shown A microcomputer based data acquisition system was developed to record
and to provide information of microstructural changes occurring.
\pagebreak
\begin{figure}
\vspace*{4in}
\caption{A really interesting picture}
\end{figure}
Materials of the composition $Fe_{X}Ni_{80-X}P_{14}B_{6}$ are studied in the\linebreak
as-quenched state and then subjected to thermal annealing and irradiation with
2 MeV protons.
\end{document}
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Date: Tue, 5 Jul 88 12:29:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: James Zurlo <jz0t+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: DVIEW previewer
I have been using DVIEW on my PC and am quite pleased with it. My only
complaint is that it
won't recognize the subdirectories where my .PXL files are stored. Could some
one place the
source code in some FTPable place?
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Date: Tue, 5 Jul 88 11:27:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jim Morris <jhm@cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: NSF Proposal Tools
As part of the NSF-sponsored EXPRES project we have created some tools for
producing NSF proposals that you may find useful. There is a program that will
produce all the standard NSF forms in PostScript. These forms look nicer than a
typewriter would produce and can be incorporated into PostScript produced by
other systems. With a little work you can produce complete proposals in
PostScript and transmit them electronically. The software is written in C, has
been tested under Berkeley UNIX, and runs on IBM RT's, SUNS, and VAXes. We have
Scribe and TEX templates that incorporate those forms into a complete proposal.
If you are interested in getting copies of the software please reply to
James.Morris@cs.cmu.edu
or
Chao-Ping.Yang@andrew.cmu.edu
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Date: 6-JUL-1988 12:04:50 GMT
From: CCZDGR%VAXH.NOTT.AC.UK@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
Subject: LATEX: For what paper-sizes are standard styles/options designed?
The following text is a repeat of an entry I submitted in March. I realize
that no-one is under any obligation to answer anything but, since I'm still
puzzled, I thought I'd re-submit it in the hope that someone might have time
to enlighten me this time round.
David Rhead
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Leslie Lamport (or the typographer he consulted) seems to have gone to a lot
of trouble to design the various aspects of the standard LaTeX styles as
appropriate for various point sizes. However, I'm not clear about the size of
paper for which they were designed.
There are various references in TeXhax to 11x8.5 paper, there are
references to "margin dimensions measured from a point one inch from the top
and side of page" in files like BK10.DOC, and LPLAIN.TEX sets \hsize and
\vsize as for 11x8.5. So perhaps the standard styles are designed to do as
well as can be expected on 11x8.5 paper.
On the other hand, perhaps the styles were designed for reproduction onto
paper that is smaller than 11x8.5. For example,
\documentstyle[10pt],book-
seems to give a text area that is similar to that in "LaTeX: A Document
Preparation System". Perhaps the output from
\documentstyle[10pt],book-
is intended for reproduction onto paper that is similar in size to the
paper that Addison-Wesley use for the book.
If the standard styles (or some of them) were designed for reproduction onto
paper that is smaller than 11x8.5, would it be possible for Leslie to provide
us with:
- a matrix giving the paper-size for which each of the 4 standard styles
and 3 standard point-size option-files were designed
- instructions for placing the "text area" onto the specified paper in such
a way as to give the effect that the designer intended?
(I suppose that, strictly speaking, it may also be necessary to specify the
type of binding that the designer assumed.)
To avoid future problems, would it be possible for this information to be
put in comments in future editions of ART10.DOC, ... , BK12.DOC?
I apologise if I'm asking for information that is available in the book
or in the relevant files: I've not been able to find it. I also apologise
for the quantity of information that I'm requesting: but the designer's
work may be wasted if the finished document isn't placed on the paper in
the way that the designer intended.
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Date: Wed, 6 Jul 88 11:49 EDT
From: <SYSMGR%UMBSKY.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: TeX for VAX/VMS and an LN01
Hello,
I'm new to this list and have never used TeX. Is there a place to get an
introduction to it? Also, if possible, I'd like to get TeX for VAX/VMS and
an LN01 laser printer. How does one go about it?
Thanks in advance,
Ted Corning
UMass/Boston
Computing Services
SYSMGR@UMBSKY.BITNET
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Subject: Re: marks
Date: 5 Jul 88 20:15:49 EDT (Tue)
From: harvard!bu-cs!encore!cloud9!jjmhome!lmann@rutgers.edu (Laurie Mann)
The problem with marks is not as bad as I thought. My chronic problem with
the wrong marks for multi-column text was caused by the fact the each
column was treated an a separate page---the text wasn't split by a vsplit.
We still have a slight problem when a leveltwoheading appears at the top
of a page. The new running head fails to automatically kick in--
we need to force it by doing the following:
\vfill\eject
\usefirstmarktrue
\mark{Foo}
\leveltwoheading{Foo}
\* We could be killed and our bodies devoured! *** Should we go home? ***
No, this is much more exciting!
Hacking net address: {harvard,ulowell}!m2c!jjmhome!lmann ** lmann@jjmhome.UUCP
Working net address: harvard!anvil!es!Laurie_Mann (Stratus Computer)
uS(n)ail: Laurie Mann, Stratus, M22PUB, 55 Fairbanks Blvd, Marlboro, MA 01752
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Date: Mon, 4 Jul 88 14:23:51 BST
From: Dr R M Damerell (RHBNC) <damerell@NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK>
Subject: Crudetype changes for NOS/VE
G-H Knauf of the University of Hannover has very kindly given me 2 change files
for NOS/VE. Unfortunately these are for Crudetype Version 0, which I discarded
in January. I have tried to adapt them so they "ought to" work with Version 1,
but I have no facilities for testing the result. All I know is that the
program Tangles. When I offer the resulting .PAS file to our (VMS) compiler,
it gives only the sort of error one might expect if you try to compile a good
program on another machine's pascal compiler.
I hope to be at Exeter with a set of discs. After that, I propose to offer copies
to the archives at Aston and Stanford and Washington (unless the archive-keepers
object, of course).
Mark
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Date: Mon, 4 Jul 88 10:03:10 BST
From: stoy%prg.oxford.ac.uk@NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK
Subject: Don Knuth's Oration
Malcolm,
I'm happy to try again to send you the ``official'' translation of Don
Knuth's Honorary Degree oration. Of course, it may by now be
unnecessary, as you may have received several more elegant versions from
TeXhax readers!
joe stoy
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PRESENTATION BY THE PUBLIC ORATOR
=================================
There is much academic talk in our laboratories and Senior Common Rooms about
the computers we use for research. As Juvenal put it, {\it nobody knows his
own house better\/} than we know the software we use to programme these
machines,
Inserting orders in their entrails from without.
Such conversations are only gossip, mere swallows twittering in a concert
hall. But they have as their foundation the elaborate science of computation
which we must master to programme our computers correctly. I said a `science'
of computation, but our honorand would rather call it an art. For it is
characteristic of an art to work out elegantly an ingenious program which
inspires a pleasurable intellectual excitement in the programmer himself and
in the critics who review his work.
So the honorand I now present should really be enrolled in the Faculty of
Arts, even though he is admitted to the Degree of Doctor of Science. We
should also welcome him as a philologist who has written with great clarity
about the languages used by scholars in writing programs and about the
analysis of the words used in computing. The {\it magnum opus\/} on which he
is engaged is entitled {\it The Art of Computer Programming}. In the three
volumes already published he reviews all kinds of programming and determines
which programs will be most rapid in getting the right results from the
computer. This book has had an enormous influence on computer science in
general.
He has done pioneer work in parts of his subject. He and his collaborator
Bendix were the first to devise term-rewriting systems for algebraic
computation. He has even ventured into the inner shrine of mathematics,
examining its hidden laws in a popular book, {\it Surreal Numbers}, which is
remininscent of the dialogues of Plato or Berkeley. How charmingly he depicts
the young man and his girl discussing the laws of mathematics and the
infinite! These studies are mysteries which I gaze on with respect but salute
from afar.
He has also contributed to the art of typography, having invented a system
for typesetting mathematical books by computer called `\TeX', an ingenious
piece of technical detection.
He was educated in California and is Professor of Computer Science at
Stanford University. He is a Lutheran and plays the organ in his spare time.
His style of writing is elegant and precise, and he has a historian's knack of
tracking down the origins of the things he describes. This is appropriate for
one who bears the ancient name of Canute, most modest of our Kings.
It is particularly timely for us to honour a scholar who is eminent in
computing this year when the first Oxford degrees in the Honour School of
Mathematics and Computation will be awarded.
I present Professor Donald Knuth for the Honorary Degree of Doctor of
Science.
ADMISSION BY THE CHANCELLOR
===========================
Leader of computing scientists, who have taught theory to the mathematicians
and conferred widespread practical benefits, I, acting on my own authority and
that of the whole University, admit you to the Honorary Degree of Doctor of
Science.
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From: mcvax!crin.crin.fr!masini@uunet.UU.NET
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 88 12:03:24 +0300
Subject: problem with caption in LaTeX
I've got a problem with LaTeX, but maybe I'm just a stupid LaTeXnician (in
fact I'm not a smart one). I want to indent the second line of the caption
in a figure environment, like this:
left margin right margin
| |
| Figure 3.2. First line of text: |
| Second line of text. |
So I used a minipage environment included in a mbox:
\begin{figure}
\vspace{8cm}
\caption[]{
\mbox{
\begin{minipage}[t]{5cm}
First line of text: \\
Second line of text.
\end{minipage}
}
}
\label{f3:code2}
\end{figure}
When I run LaTeX on a small test file (book style) including two sections,
some text around the figure, and another figures before and after this one,
everything's ok: I get what I want.
But when I insert the figure at its place (i.e. almost the end) in the file
containing the real text (about 150 pages) and run LaTeX on the file, the
caption looks like that:
left margin right margin
| |
|Figure 3.2.|
| First line of text: |
| Second line of text. |
I don't use any locally defined commands, just LaTeX built-in ones. Anybody
has an idea to help me or... another way to get a caption as I've described
it ? Please E-mail eventual answers.
Thanks in advance,
Ge'rald MASINI CRIN (Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy)
uucp: masini@crin.crin.fr
post: CRIN B.P. 239 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy Cedex FRANCE
phone: +33 83.91.21.45
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From: kuo%skatter.USask.ca@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 88 23:15:38 CST
Subject: TeX for a PC without hard disk
Steve,
Regarding your query in TeXHack v88 n59 about getting TeX (or
LaTeX) running on a PC without a hard disk. I think it is
possible. I am using MicroTeX v1.51 from Addison-Wesley and
its manual describes how one can install MicroTeX on a floppy-based
system. It says you need a two-floppy system, but for 720-k disks
as in your case, I think you can have the minimal files all fit
on one disk. The trouble is that A-W is now out of the TeX game
(not sure if they no longer deal with TeX programs or just no further
support), so I am not sure if you can still order v1.5 from them.
I have no experience with PC-TeX (or other p/d or shareware TeX
such as CTeX or DosTeX or Turbo-TeX etc) but I would imagine it
would be possible to install it without a hard disk. Usually a hard
disk is needed when you install a DVI driver as the fonts take up
LOTS of room. However, the memory/disk hog might well be LaTeX.
Best of luck.
Peter/
Peter Kuo | Bitnet (VMS) : KUO@SASK
Accelerator Laboratory | Internet : kuo@skatter.USask.Ca
(a.k.a. The Beam Warehouse) | uucp (Unix) : !alberta\
Univ. of Saskatchewan | !ihnp4 -- !damask!skatter!kuo
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | !utcsri /
CANADA S7N 0W0 |
(Earth) | Ma Bell : (306) 966-8528
Disclaimer: I don't know what I am saying, I'm only a physicist.
Don't quote me on anything! I speak only for myself.
Opus: "Why, fer cryin' out loud..research physicists need Porsches, TOO!!"
-- Bloom County
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From: kuo%skatter.USask.ca@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 88 23:18:17 CST
Subject: DVI previewer for PC/MS-DOS
Just to follow up on a comment by Daniel Keizer (BUSU@Uofmcc.Bitnet)
in TeXHack v88 n59 about DVI previewers on PCs.
I am not aware of the Dview program, but I have been using a program
called CDVI from Wayne Sullivan of the University College in Ireland.
I have enclosed below a description of his package and hope is of some
interest to other.
Following is an edited version (including my own comments) of the mail
message I received (June 1987) from the author of the CDVI* programs, Wayne
Sullivan (WSULIVAN@IRLEARN.BITNET):
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CDVICGA, CDVIO and CDVIH are programs for making making TeX DVI
output visible on the graphics screen of compatible PC's. CDVICGA is
for CGA graphics; CDVIO, for Olivetti/ATT 640 by 400 graphics;
CDVIH, for Hercules 720 by 348 graphics. Many graphics cards will
handle CGA graphics, but the relatively low resolution does not
allow much on the screen at one time.
If you have access to TeX and can copy DVI files to your PC,
then you can see the output with CDVI. The included versions
have the 16 Plain TeX fonts built in. These versions will not
handle other fonts or too large page size, but magnified Plain
TeX fonts are simulated.
[easily done using Kermit on PC and VMS.]
DVI files are 8 bitbyte files. If they are transferred as text files,
CDVI may produce "post error" or IO error 99, indicating that information
has been lost. The most common source of trouble with CDVI is a "bad"
DVI file. Make sure you have a valid DVI file before you blame CDVI.
[make sure you "set file type bianry" in Kermit.]
To run the program enter (e.g.) CDVICGA and "CR". If the current screen is
not the graphics screen the program will halt as will also happen if there
have been errors in transmission of the program file. Otherwise a title
page followed by a list of DVI files in the current directory appears. To
select a file enter its number as one or two digits and "CR". Instead, one
can enter the filename (with or without .DVI). One can change directory
by entering . followed by "CR" and following instructions. By entering
"CR" by itself one exits the program. Once the program is processing a
DVI file, one can use page movement commands and the commands Q (for quit)
and N (for New DVI file). These commands do not require "CR".
CDVI truncates images outside its page. Some macro packages like to use
negative sp unit coordinates, which causes CDVI to truncate the top or
left margin of the page. By setting xoffset and voffset in the TEX file
it should be possible to correct this, but not if the page dimensions are
excessive. See the references to hoffset and voffset in the TeXbook.
[I have used a previewer from Textset before and the CDVI programs are
*almost* as good, if the author allows font/magnification substitution
etc.; this is in the works as I was told. I like the scrolling mode in
CDVI *MUCH* better. The programs are written in Turbo Pascal and the author
is not prepared to release the source (too bad!).]
LDEV1.DVI is a demo file. It is two pages long.
Peter Kuo | Bitnet (VMS) : KUO@SASK
Accelerator Laboratory | Internet : kuo@skatter.USask.Ca
(a.k.a. The Beam Warehouse) | uucp (Unix) : !alberta\
Univ. of Saskatchewan | !ihnp4 -- !damask!skatter!kuo
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | !utcsri /
CANADA S7N 0W0 |
(Earth) | Ma Bell : (306) 966-8528
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From: kuo%skatter.USask.ca@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 88 23:21:20 CST
Subject: TeX source for PC/MS-DOS
I echo Daniel Keizer's (BUSU@Uofmcc.Bitnet) plea for a source of TeX for
PC/MS-DOS machines in TeXHack v88 n59. We have heard a lot (both in TeXHack
and in TUGBOAT) about all these (neat) ports, but no one seems to know where
and how one can get the programs (needless to say the sources!). I have tried
to connect some of these authors (for example, Pat Monardo for his
Common TeX) but never heard back. Therefore, I (and am sure many others) would
appreciate hearing about where and how we can get these programs, especially
for sites WITHOUT FTP access. I am also interested in getting the full set
of files necessary for doing a TRIP test.
Thanks very much.
Peter/
Peter Kuo | Bitnet (VMS) : KUO@SASK
Accelerator Laboratory | Internet : kuo@skatter.USask.Ca
(a.k.a. The Beam Warehouse) | uucp (Unix) : !alberta\
Univ. of Saskatchewan | !ihnp4 -- !damask!skatter!kuo
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | !utcsri /
CANADA S7N 0W0 |
(Earth) | Ma Bell : (306) 966-8528
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Date: Thu, 07 Jul 88 13:58:29 GVA
From: "John M. Jowett" <JOWETT%CERNVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Cyrillic fonts for LN03 printer
Does anyone have the AMS cyrillic fonts (plus TFM files etc.) for the
DEC LN03 printer ? We have the Kellerman and Smith TeX under VMS.
Address: LEP Division \\ CERN \\ CH-1211 Geneva 23 \\ Switzerland
Telephone: (022) 83 66 43 OR 83 50 86 (secretary) OR 833254 (Division)
Telex: 419000 CER CH Telefax: (022) 82 02 21
Location in CERN: Building 30 Room 6-014 (former ISR building)
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From: HORNS%DHVIFW1.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 88 11:06:01 MEZ
Subject: Driver for a Printronics P600?
WE HAVE JUST INSTALLED A PRINTRONICS P600 LINE PRINTER WHICH HAS LOW-
RESOLUTION
GRAPHICS CAPABILITIES USING SOME PRINTRONICS PRIVATE GRAPHICS
PROTOCOL.
CONSINDERING TO USE THIS DEVICE AS A TEX OUTPUT DEVICE FOR PROOF SHEETS
ETC.,
WE ARE INTERESTED TO HEAR WHETHER THERE IS A SUITABLE TEX DRIVER
ANYWHERE
AVAILABLE ON FREE DOMAIN.
WE ARE RUNNING TEX 2.09 ON A VAX COMPUTER SYSTEM UNDER VMS 4.7.
A.HORNS
INSTITUT FUER FERTIGUNGSTECHNIK
UND SPANENDE WERKZEUGMASCHINEN
UNIVERSITAET HANNOVER
3000 HANNOVER
FRG --- WEST GERMANY
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Date: Thu, 07 Jul 88 08:47:14 +0300
From: Malki Cymbalista <VUMALKI%WEIZMANN.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: DVI to Postscript for CMS
Does anyone know of a DVI to Postscript driver that runs under VM/CMS?
Any information will be appreciated. Thanks. Malki
VUMALKI at WEIZMANN.BITNET
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