russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (06/14/90)
I enquired a few days ago as to how to get ditroff. Several helpful souls pointed out that troff in the DWB was ditroff --- Thanks. Now to the next part of the saga... I have now installed DWB and tried to use it and it is now appearent that my first reading of the release notes was infact correct. SGI have removed the PostScript support from DWB for Irix 3.2.2 ( everybody has Transcript, don't they? ) If you use -Tpsc as the man page tells you to then you get a message complaining about the absence of /usr/lib/font/devpsc. To get around this I tried installing tpscript (from the simtel archive) Troff now complain that there are too many special characters defined in .../devalw/DESC.out. Trumped again! The README file for tpscript mentions this problem with version one of DWB and expressed the hope that it would be fixed in later releases. Alas it has not, we have v2.0. We don't have the sources for DWB so I am stuck. Can any body suggest where I can go from here? I am not certain that transcript will solve my problems since the printer is on a VAX and so I need a postscript file that I can copy to the Vax to print. Thanks for any ideas. Russell.
blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV ("Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS361 x42854") (06/14/90)
I think the PostScript support you are looking for is in the S4-LPS (Laser Printer Support). As far as I know that is were it has always been. -- Brent L. Bates NASA-Langley Research Center M.S. 361 Hampton, Virginia 23665-5225 (804) 864-2854 E-mail: blbates@aero4.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero2.larc.nasa.gov
msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) (06/15/90)
In article <9006140129.AA23115@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>, russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz writes: |> Can any body suggest where I can go from here? I am not certain that transcript |> will solve my problems since the printer is on a VAX and so I need a postscript |> file that I can copy to the Vax to print. psroff (The transcript frontend script) has an option to have it write the PostScript to its standard output instead of sending it to the printer. As far as I know we've always sold the Transcript software separately from dwb. -- From the TARDIS of Mark Callow msc@ramoth.sgi.com, ...{ames,decwrl}!sgi!msc "There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play. It strongly defines its content."