[comp.unix.i386] SysV3.2 doesn't know Postscipt!!!!! Idiots!

shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) (06/06/90)

In article <sean.644531308@s.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>Are the AT&T people stupid, or what? Did they think no one was ever going
>to use postscript? What shortsightedness. What a *pain*.

I personally find it amazing that the typical UNIX document processing
package supports such an atypical collection of printers. Like, really,
how many of your colleagues count a a C/A/T or Imagen photo typesetter
in their installations. Yet any good DOS-based word processor from Word
Perfect, Microsoft, Lyrix, et. al. will support myriad collections of
dot-matrix, ink jet, Postscript, HP-compatible, etc. printers.

Myself, I keep nroff around to handle man pages, but for more serious
documents I have to change environments to you-know-what. Yes, Interleaf
and Frame Maker are powerful packages, but resource- and license-wise,
how many of us can afford them?

bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) (06/07/90)

From article <51@raysnec.UUCP>, by shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake):
> Myself, I keep nroff around to handle man pages, but for more serious
> documents I have to change environments to you-know-what. Yes, Interleaf
> and Frame Maker are powerful packages, but resource- and license-wise,
> how many of us can afford them?

Interleaf is now free to U.S. academic institutions.  (free = media
and documentation costs).

Paul DuBois
Internet:	dubois@primate.wisc.edu
UUCP:		rhesus!dubois
FAX:		608/263-4031

rubin@cbnewsl.att.com (Mike Rubin) (06/08/90)

In article <sean.644531308@s.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>Has anyone ever gotten 3.2 to drive a postscript printer? 

AT&T SVR3.2.3 adds support for Postscript printers.
It should hit the streets in one to three months
(that's my guess, ask your salesperson or the Hotline
for official dates; the Hotline might be able to get
you a copy of the lp package early)
though with zero advertising as far as I can tell.
I dunno whether SVR3.2.3 lp will run on an SVR3.2 system;
it should be okay on an SVR3.2.2 system.

--Mike Rubin <mike@attunix.att.com>

richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) (06/11/90)

>> Myself, I keep nroff around to handle man pages, but for more serious
>> documents I have to change environments to you-know-what. Yes, Interleaf
>> and Frame Maker are powerful packages, but resource- and license-wise,
>> how many of us can afford them?
>
>Interleaf is now free to U.S. academic institutions.  (free = media
>and documentation costs).
>

Considering what a terrible mess it is that's still too much.

-- 
Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com