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