root@pcgbase.UUCP (Super user) (02/02/90)
Please forgive this second posting but I zapped my news feed late last night. I'm runing Xenix 2.2.3 and "Portfolio Suite" on an Everex 386/25 with 8mb of ram. I just installed Microsoft Word Version 5.0 and set up an NEC LC890 Silentwriter as a Postscript printer. Printing from within WORD works fine but now how do I print from Xenix? Starting last week at UNIFORUM I'v asked at least 8 different people from SCO how this could be done. The answers are as follows. 1. I'ts built into the OS, just do mkdev lp and pick the postscript interface. WRONG! 2. I'll FAX you a script. The script referenced two files I don't have. (/usr/bin/pscat psprint) 3. It's in the Text Processing system but I don't know anything about that. 4. You have to buy EROFF. (I've heard SCO can't sell this because they don't have a signed contract) 5. Etc. Etc........... Can anyone help with a Xenix interface file for a postscript printer? Or tell me where to buy one.
davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (02/06/90)
In article <8@pcgbase.UUCP> root@pcgbase.UUCP (Super user) writes: | 1. I'ts built into the OS, just do mkdev lp and pick the postscript | interface. WRONG! What happened when you picked the PostScript interface?? What was the failure mode? | | 2. I'll FAX you a script. | The script referenced two files I don't have. (/usr/bin/pscat psprint) Bug them again to get the rest of the package. | | 3. It's in the Text Processing system but I don't know anything about that. I think that's wrong. I don't have a list of the SLS stuff here, but I think it was either an SLS, or part of update A (to 2.3.3), or something like that. | | 4. You have to buy EROFF. (I've heard SCO can't sell this because they don't | have a signed contract) I've talked to people who say that they got Elan from SCO, I assume it's the truth. Elan is *mush* faster than the standard stuff, but it has a few drawbacks. It doesn't include the man pages, and you can take the output of old troff and run it through thack to get useful PostScript. -- bill davidsen - sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX davidsen@sixhub.uucp ...!uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen "Getting old is bad, but it beats the hell out of the alternative" -anon