pschmidt@bbn.com (Peter H. Schmidt) (07/10/89)
I installed the 3B1 version of TeX a few months ago, along with the dvieps 9-pin Epson printer binary. I'm grateful to the person (I've lost his name) who compiled all the fonts, &c. BUT (you knew there'd be a but, or I wouldn't be posting), dvieps unfortunately spaces things incorrectly on my Panasonic KX-P1124 because dvieps thinks it should linefeed by n/216ths of an inch, while my printer takes the command to mean feed by n/180th of an inch. Also, I'd like to be able to take advantage of the greater resolution of my 24 pin printer. I tried hacking the source, but I could *not* get it to compile. There seem to be symbols incompatible with file.h on my system (3.51), as well as a bunch of syntax errors that the stock cc doesn't like. SO, I'm hoping for either a) A 24 pin dvi driver for the Epson or Panasonic printer families (binary or source) b) Advice on how to persuade the stock dvieps.c to compile. Thanks in advance -- Peter ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cayman Systems Inc. | Please reply to "peter@cayman.com" or 26 Landsdowne St. | "...harvard!mit-nc!winter!pschmidt" Cambridge, MA 02139 |---------------------------------------------------------- (617) 494-1999 | Speaking for myself. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
kid@june.cs.washington.edu (Bob Mitchell) (07/11/89)
In article <42426@bbn.COM> peter@cayman.com writes: >SO, I'm hoping for either a) A 24 pin dvi driver for the Epson or Panasonic >printer families (binary or source) b) Advice on how to persuade the stock >dvieps.c to compile. > You have two choices here. First, Nelson Beebe does have a driver for a 24 pin Epson compatibles. Unfortunately I lost the FTP address where he has it. Maybe someone else knows, or you could contact him (beebe@science.utah.edu). Second, I did a translation of Beebe's dvieps.c to dvieLQ.c. I'm willing to mail out my diffs to his DVI family which contain this and some minor changes to allow them to compile on the unix-pc (and other SYSV systems). (The sources to the DVI stuff itself is on science.utah.edu in the file APS:<TEX.DVI>DVI.TARZ (a compressed tar file - use tenex mode to transfer it).) Bob Mitchell. -- -------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- The praise of the Lord will be | uucp: ...!uw-beaver!uw-june!kid continually on my lips. | arpanet: kid@cs.washington.edu -------------------------------------+--------------------------------------