[comp.sys.sun] hp-laserjet drivers for SUN Workstations

sen@uncecs.edu (Sheldon E. Newhouse) (05/25/89)

Does anyone know of a program which will allows screendumps from SUN
Workstations onto an hp-laserjet Series II printer?

Public domain and commercial programs will be welcome

	Sheldon Newhouse, 
	Math Dept- UNC
	962-9621

sen@uncecs.edu (Sheldon E. Newhouse) (05/25/89)

I would recommend that you look into Sabre C, although I've never used it
myself. It has interactive execution, and on-the-fly compilation, etc. ..
In Unix land, C is the way to go.  I wouldn't wish FORTH on my worst
enemy. Of course, if you belong to the Church of LISP, you have no option,
lest you risk excommunication.

Another possibilty is to rig up a home-grown Sabre-C-like system. On the
newer, faster machines, that should be a snap: You can use the C compiler
itself, rather than an "interpretive" compiler/linker. You'll need to
write a runtime linker, or use ld -A.

schilz@uunet.uu.net (Thomas Schilz) (06/15/89)

In article <3553@kalliope.rice.edu>, sen@uncecs.edu (Sheldon E. Newhouse) writes:
> Does anyone know of a program which will allows screendumps from SUN
> Workstations onto an hp-laserjet Series II printer?
> 

We use the pbm (portable bitmap) package, posted in comp.sources.misc last
year. There is a program `rastopbm' which converts a Sun-rasterfile to the
pbm-format, and a program `pbmtolj' which generates hp-raster graphics from
pbm-files.
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