pml@usl (Patrick Landry) (02/16/89)
In light of some recent postings a long wish of mine has re-surfaced. We use magic here and an HP plotter. We are currently usinf 'cifp' to plot. I would like to set up a regular unix printer queue for the plotter. This would mean that I would need a cif->hpgl translator so the resulting HPGL file could be spooled. Anyone know of such a beast or any other solution to my wish? thanks -- patrick ...!uunet!dalsqnt!usl!pml pml@usl.usl.edu
howard@wasatch.UUCP (Walt Howard) (02/19/89)
We have a copy of JPL's old Fortran CIFPLOT. It reads CIF files and will plot
them on HP graphics terminals or HP plotters (7221 or 7550, which is HPGL).
Right now it dumps the HPGL to a file on /tmp, but it's a one-line hack
(uncomment a line in the plotter driver routine) to make it put the file in
the printer queue, and it will do the CIF->HPGL conversion you want if stdin
is redirected from a 3-line file "DEV 7550\nPLOT\nQ\n". If nothing better pops
up, send me mail and I'll reply with ftp instructions.
This version understands current MOSIS layer names, but no user extension
commands to the CIF language.
>>Walt howard@wasatch.utah.edu