lee (04/22/83)
From: Lee.Moore
I few weeks ago I send out a survey for DITROFF drivers. I got two
replies and they are summurized below. In addition, we are currently
working on a Xerox "Press" driver. If you would like to be added to
this list, send me a note describing your driver.
=lee
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Name of device: Merganthaler 202 (the one from Bell only works at Bell)
Name of device: IBM 6670 laser printer
Your name: Bill Lee (lee@utexas-11 or..!ucbvax!nbires!ut-ngp!lee)
Your address: Univ. of Texas
Computation Center, COM 1,
Austin, Tx 78712
Restrictions: ditroff license
The 6670 filter is not too slick but it works. The 202 filter is
much improved over what we got from AT&T but it does have a few
problems still, e.g. does not work perfectly with eqn.
Name of device: Cannon Laser printer (Imprint-10)
Your name: Dan Chernikoff
Your address: dan at SRI-TSC
Restrictions: Ditroff licence
Cost: Free
When we here at SRI we got DITROFF to use on a Canon Imprint-10
laser printer, and expected it to work right away, since the do-
cumentation (and even Brian Kernighan him- self) said that
there was a driver for the Canon. Not so. The driver that comes with
the tape could never have been run on a Canon. Or if it was, it
was a VERY old canon, because there were fundamental errors in the
output language from dcan (and lots of other bugs as well).
Anyway, we have gotten it to run, on a PDP 11/44 under 2.8+BSD. We
also have a program that converts the Berkeley versatek fonts
to work with the Canon (actually it generates the DESC and .out
files, and we use the same format for the glyph files as vtroff).