hydrovax@nmtsun.nmt.edu (M. Warner Losh) (01/29/88)
Help,
I need to get a hold of a DVI to HP LaserJet+ conversion program
(filter). In addition, I need one that will allow users to preview
these files on a VAXstation II. We are running VMS 4.4 and VWS 3.0.
If you have one or the other of these written in either MACRO, FORTRAN,
PASCAL, or C for ANY MACHINE, ANY OS, (except the MACRO bit, that NEEDS
to be from VMS, since I don't know any other assemblers). If these
are available from anonymous FTP, then I would be able to grab them
in a few weeks (as soon as we get onto NSF-net here at Tech).
Please send e-mail, I'll post a summary, since I've seen this request
many times, but no answers on the net.
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bitnet: losh@nmt.csnet M. Warner Losh
csnet: warner%hydrovax@nmtsun
uucp: ...{cmcl2, ihnp4}!lanl!unmvax!nmtsun!warner%hydrovaxaslam@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu (01/30/88)
Nelson Beebe maintains a large suite of dvi filters for a number of laser
printers and dot matrix printers. The filters are all written in C and
run under unix, vms and I think, ms-dos. Anyway, ftp over to utah and
brouse through the software there. Here is his posting from TeXHax digest.
Sohail Aslam
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois
arpa aslam@a.cs.uiuc.edu
csnet aslam@uiuc.csnet
usenet {ihnp4,seismo}!uiucdcs!aslam
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Version 2.10 of my DVI driver family was released 01-Nov-87.
Users who are on the DVI mailing list have already been sent
Newsletter #14 with details. The most significant changes are
substantial enhancements to the drivers for the HP LaserJet Plus
(and compatibles) and PostScript printers, and the addition of
two experimental drivers for Epson 9-pin printers.
If you read this, and have the driver software, but are not on
the DVI mailing list, please send a request to
BEEBE@Science.Utah.Edu to be added.
We now have a European Bitnet redistribution site at the
University of Heidelburg, a British Janet redistribution site at
Aston University, and are setting up a European DECNET
redistribution site at the University of Padova in Italy. I
expect soon that a Japanese site will be added.
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** My request to this net is for someone to offer Bitnet **
** server support for the US and Canada, in order that **
** Bitnet sites can obtain the drivers electronically. **
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The master distribution directories, APS:<TEX.*>, at
Science.Utah.Edu provide for Arpanet access, but provide no
access for people on other popular nets. About 3.6Mb of disk
space is required for the approximately 210 files in the
distribution (no binary files are stored). For the convenience
of Unix Arpanet sites, I also maintain a compressed tar file,
which requires another 934Kb of disk space.
VAX VMS sites who wish to obtain a VMS binary distribution may
now do so via ANONYMOUS FTP (password GUEST) to CTRSCI.UTAH.EDU
(Internet 128.110.192.4); a 00README.TXT file in the login
directory gives details.
I am unwilling at this point to deposit the family on one of the
Usenet distributions, such as comp.sources.unix, because of the
large size of the DVI family, its rapid evolution, and the long
delay (sometimes months) between posting and appearance. Also,
there is no central repository, but instead thousands of copies
spread throughout the world, making updating a Herculean task.
Finally, I can report that the troubles a few Arpanet sites have
had in accessing Science.Utah.Edu are due to gateways elsewhere
on the net which have inadequate host table sizes, and apparently
lose addresses with high Internet numbers (ours is 128.110.192.2).
This problem is insoluble for the moment. Arpanet IMP's, which
function as some, but not all, of the gateways, are undergoing
major software upgrades this fall, and we can only hope that the
upgrades will eliminate the connection problems.
If some kind Arpanet site with a low Internet number wishes to
volunteer repository space, I will be happy to use it. Such a
site should preferably support the FTP UPDATE/INSTALL commands
(which Unix FTP's apparently do not), in order that updating of
the distribution can be automated.