gavin@mit-caf.MIT.EDU (Gavin C. H. Zau) (07/24/89)
We have just bought a Apple laserwriter II NTX for our M120. Is there any program that would plot data for postscript printing? and is there any text formatting and outputting programs that works? Any information on hooking up and programs for using the MIPS and the postscript printer will be appreciated. Thanks. -- Gavin Zau Dept of Chemical Engineering, MIT gavin@caf.mit.edu mefl@eagle.mit.edu
rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) (07/25/89)
In article <2902@mit-caf.MIT.EDU> gavin@mit-caf.UUCP (Gavin C. H. Zau) writes: > > We have just bought a Apple laserwriter II NTX for our >M120. Is there any program that would plot data for postscript >printing? and is there any text formatting and outputting programs >that works? Any information on hooking up and programs for using >the MIPS and the postscript printer will be appreciated. Contact Adobe. Transcript, and perhaps other of their Postscript tools, are ported to MIPS RISComputers. Contact Phil Smith at 415-961-4400. -- ROGER B.A. KLORESE MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. phone: +1 408 720-2939 928 E. Arques Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94086 rogerk@mips.COM {ames,decwrl,pyramid}!mips!rogerk "I want to live where it's always Saturday." -- Guadalcanal Diary
bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) (07/25/89)
From article <23983@abbott.mips.COM>, by rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese): > In article <2902@mit-caf.MIT.EDU> gavin@mit-caf.UUCP (Gavin C. H. Zau) writes: >> >> We have just bought a Apple laserwriter II NTX for our >>M120. Is there any program that would plot data for postscript >>printing? and is there any text formatting and outputting programs >>that works? Any information on hooking up and programs for using >>the MIPS and the postscript printer will be appreciated. > > Contact Adobe. Transcript, and perhaps other of their Postscript tools, are > ported to MIPS RISComputers. Another possibility is to use thack, which was recently posted to the net. It takes old-style troff and converts it to PostScript. As its name implies, thack isn't commercial quality, so you wouldn't want to use it for production work, but for getting output, it's a quick start, and old troff comes with standard output with -t to avoid the dread "Typesetter busy" message. Paul DuBois dubois@primate.wisc.edu
bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) (07/25/89)
From article <453@indri.primate.wisc.edu>, by bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral): > thack isn't commercial quality, so you wouldn't want to use it for production > work, but for getting output, it's a quick start, and old troff comes with > standard output with -t to avoid the dread "Typesetter busy" message. Oops,tThat should be: thack isn't commercial quality, so you wouldn't want to use it for production work, but for getting output, it's a quick start, and old troff comes with the system anyway (I believe). Don't forget to send the output to standard output with -t to avoid the dread "Typesetter busy" message.
rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) (07/26/89)
In article <143@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> bin@primate.wisc.edu writes: >thack isn't commercial quality, so you wouldn't want to use it for production >work, but for getting output, it's a quick start, and old troff comes with >the system anyway (I believe). Old troff comes with the bsd43 command tree (free but optionally installable) on release 4.0 and subsequent releases. -- ROGER B.A. KLORESE MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. phone: +1 408 720-2939 928 E. Arques Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94086 rogerk@mips.COM {ames,decwrl,pyramid}!mips!rogerk "I want to live where it's always Saturday." -- Guadalcanal Diary