asami@kddlab.kddlabs.JUNET (Tohru Asami) (05/20/88)
As we are using several J-Star workstations in our office, we want to set up links between these workstations and UNIX machines. When I tried to install DIPRESS (XEROX Interpress Tools, included in UNIX 4.3BSD distribution tapes), I found the installation failed because there was no "makedev" command in the distribution. If you know how to let "makedev DESC" work, please inform me on it. Do I have to get a program "makedev" from someone? Tohru Asami asami%kddlab.kddlabs.junet@uunet.uu.net
phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre) (05/22/88)
In article <421@kddlab.kddlabs.JUNET> asami@kddlab.kddlabs.JUNET (Tohru Asami) writes: >When I tried to install DIPRESS (XEROX Interpress Tools, included >in UNIX 4.3BSD distribution tapes), I found the installation failed >because there was no "makedev" command in the distribution. > >If you know how to let "makedev DESC" work, please inform me on >it. Do I have to get a program "makedev" from someone? "makedev" is the same "makedev" that comes with ditroff. You just need to make sure that the executable for makedev is on your path somewhere before trying to install dipress. The source is in the "troff" directory of the ditroff distribution (at least in our version that's where it is). Disclaimer: it's been a few years since I did anything with dipress, and others may have made changes of which I am unaware. William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice University <phil@Rice.edu>
jaap+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jaap Akkerhuis) (05/22/88)
> As we are using several J-Star workstations in our office, we want > to set up links between these workstations and UNIX machines. > When I tried to install DIPRESS (XEROX Interpress Tools, included > in UNIX 4.3BSD distribution tapes), I found the installation failed > because there was no "makedev" command in the distribution. > If you know how to let "makedev DESC" work, please inform me on > it. Do I have to get a program "makedev" from someone? > Tohru Asami > asami%kddlab.kddlabs.junet@uunet.uu.net First, of course troff or vditroff doesn't had any to do with connecting machines together. The makedev program is part of the Documentors Work Bench distribution. You canget this from AT&T. You will need this anyway, since Dipress works only with the new troff (ditroff). If you don't have a licence for these products, then anybody giving you the makedev program will be violating it's licence. jaap
lee@rocksanne.UUCP (Lee Moore) (05/28/88)
In article <421@kddlab.kddlabs.JUNET>, asami@kddlab.kddlabs.JUNET (Tohru Asami) writes: > When I tried to install DIPRESS (XEROX Interpress Tools, included > in UNIX 4.3BSD distribution tapes), I found the installation failed > because there was no "makedev" command in the distribution. > I am the person at Xerox that is currently maintaining dipress as well as coordinator of the Xerox Interpress Toolkit. As Jaap noted, the "makedev" program is part of "Documentor's Workbench". "Documentor's Workbench" is not on the 4.3BSD Unix distribution. It must be bought seperately. If you have new troff (typesetter independent troff) then you should also have "makedev". In this case, perhaps "makedev" is not in your search path. As a side note to everybody, there are newer versions of the Interpress Toolkit available. The newer versions have many new features including a translator for the old troff (which emitted Graphics Systems C/A/T codes). The old troff comes standard with Berkeley Unix. The newest version also runs on PCs and VMS. To get your copy: I don't know if it is still there but there was a copy accessable from the DARPA Internet as: [parcvax.xerox.com]~ftp/pub/iptk3.0.tar.Z You can also order it from Xerox for some nominal fee. The telephone number in the USA is: 408 737 4652 in the UK it is: 0628 89 3684 From the DARPA Internet, one can also order via electonic mail with the address: osd-pubs.osbunorth@xerox.com You will probably want to contact Xerox anyway as the Troff emulation fonts aren't available electronically. Lee -- Lee Moore -- Xerox Webster Research Center, birthplace of the XGP UUCP: {allegra, decvax, cmcl2, rutgers}!rochester!rocksanne!lee Arpa Internet: Moore.wbst@xerox.arpa DDN: +1 (716) 422-2496
kai@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu (05/31/88)
A PD replacement for makedev is also available. One was posted a little
while back (to comp.sources.unix I believe). I have written one that
seems to work fine on our Sequent Balance 8000 (4.2bsd). The latest
release of Dynix included ditroff, but nothing to convert the output to
PostScript. We picked up a program called tpscript (new version has
just been posted to comp.sources.unix) and have been working our poor
LaserWriter to death ever since.
My only beef with ditroff is the limitation of ten fonts per device.
Considering tpscript adds second special font to handle the stuff not
found in the other special font, you can only use 8 of the other 12
fonts.
David Nelson
Kuck and Associates, Inc.
Internet: dnelson@kai.com or dnelson%kai.com@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu
UUCP: ...!{uunet,ihnp4}!uiucuxc!kailand!dnelson
The opinions expressed here are my own, NOT my employers.kg@elan.UUCP (Ken Greer) (06/02/88)
From article <44900008@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu>, by kai@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu: > > My only beef with ditroff is the limitation of ten fonts per device. Ditroff has no font number limit, per se, however, several bugs exist in AT&T's ditroff that prevent more than 10! ("Bugs?", you chuckle.) We've fixed those bugs in our distributed version of ditroff, called Eroff. (Other ditroff vendors may have also; you'll have to check.) -- Ken Greer Elan Computer Group, Inc. {ames,hplabs}!elan!kg 415-322-2450
phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre) (06/07/88)
In article <317@elan.UUCP> kg@elan.UUCP (Ken Greer) writes: >From article <44900008@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu>, by kai@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu: >> >> My only beef with ditroff is the limitation of ten fonts per device. > >Ditroff has no font number limit, per se... Also remember that ditroff's idea of a font is a little more far-reaching than most everyone else's definition. A "font" in ditroff spans all possible point sizes. Thus one can ask for .ft R and use it at any available point size (10, 12, 18, 24, etc.) and it still only counts as one font. The different point sizes are all considered to be proportional to one another. In other words, 12 point widths are exactly twice 6 point's, and 24 point widths are exactly twice 12 point's. So "ten fonts" means (for example): Roman, Italic, Bold, Helvettica, typewriter, script, Lucida, TimesRoman, TimesBold, special. Each font is available at all the "standard" point sizes. I'm not saying I like ditroff's approach...just that that's the way it does it. William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice University <phil@Rice.edu>