nigel@cs.city.ac.uk (Nigel Mitchem) (06/05/91)
We have a network of three SPARCstations: tom, dick and harry. Dick is connected to a Panasonic dot matrix printer while harry is connected to a HP LaserJet III printer. Both printers are connected via the RS-232 serial port. ASCII files can be printed on either printers from any one of the SPARCstations. The HP LJ III is also connected via the parallel port to an stand alone PC, say Loney, to allow our secretaries to use existing WP packages. So far, so good! We have installed LaTeX and related tools such as textool. Since we do not have a postcript driver, it is necessary to use dvijep to be able to use the HP LJ-III. However the picture isnt rosy. Suppose there is a LaTeX file `paper.tex' with the usual `paper.dvi'. On any one of the SPARCs, dvijep creates a file `paper.dvi-jep'. By whatever means e.g. `lpr -Plw' or `cp /dev/ttya' (on harry) GARBAGE is produced instead of a nice looking paper!!! The `fix' we have developed is to ftp in binary mode from a SPARC to a disk on another PC via Ethernet. Then taking the disk to Loney and `copy a:paper.dvi-jep /b lpt1' does the trick. QUESTION: is there a BETTER fix to print a *.*jep file directly to the HP LJ III????????????????????????????? Any solutions would be greatly appreciated. Tilak Ratnanather Dept of Mathematics City University Northampton Square London EC1V oHB e-mail: jtr%mathsun1@city.ac.uk sg391@city.ac.uk -- BOOOOO