[comp.sys.next] printing mach docs

clement@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Clement Pellerin) (01/05/90)

 > CMU MACH documentation can be obtained by anonymous ftp.  This is the
 > official set of documents from CMU.  I do not think that NeXT is giving
 > all this in their manuals.  Some features may not be available...
 > 
 > Joe Barello
 > Lawrence Livermore National Lab
 > 
 > 	ftp wb1.cs.cmu.edu
 > 	anonymous
 > 	user
 > 	
 > 	cd /usr/mach/public/doc
 > 	ls
 > 	bin
 > 	prompt
 > 	mget *.ps

I tried to print machsys.ps on the next printer but I get errors from
the postscript interpreter.  (dh undefined, the previewer prints
big letters upside down and lpr refuses to print)  Machsys.ps was obtained
by running dvips on the output of tex.  Unfortunately, dvips at cmu
does not produce encapsulated postscript.  I managed to coerce all
files to print except machsys.ps.  (In fact I could print all of it
except the last 4 pages in the file).  Has anyone succeeded in printing
the cmu mach docs?

clement@opus.cs.mcgill.ca
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walden@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Eugene Marvin Walden ) (01/06/90)

    I printed the MACH documentation, and it came out quite nicely. I used 
BYU telnet to get them to a MAC, then used a program called "Send-PS" to send
it to the Apple Laserwriter. I initially had trouble because I was using binary
mode transfer to ftp it to the MAC. Postscript, though, is ASCII. Binary did
not seem to work. Anyway, good luck. Hope you can find this program around
somewhere.