[comp.text.tex] HP LaserJet Drivers

goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET ("Hunter Goatley, WKU") (03/08/91)

>I have been looking for a dvi driver for the HP LaserJet.  I found one that
>is supposed to work with the LaserJet or IBM3812.  When I try to use, it my
>system just sits there and does nothing.  In DesqView, I have to reboot the
>window when in straight DOS, I have to reboot the machine.
>
>I have a 386 running DOS 4.01 with 4M of memory.  The last time the history
>file for the dvi2lj was updated was: 30 Oct 89.  The author is: Gustaf
>Neumann.  It does seem to be for the PC.  Could someone help me with either
>another LaserJet driver or a newer version of this one?
>
>Thanks,
>  Darren
>
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I strongly recommend emTeX for
the PC, which includes just about everything you'd want (except a DVI to
PostScript program, but Tom Rokicki's DVIPS is emTeX-aware).  It includes
DVIHPLJ, DVIDOT (for most any dot-matrix printer in graphics mode), and
DVISCR, the best previewer I've seen on a PC.  The emTeX DVI drivers can
also include .PCX and .MSP graphics files (including DVISCR, so you can now
preview with your graphics).
 
emTeX is available via anonymous ftp from ymir.claremont.edu and from
msdos.archive.umich.edu (used to be terminator.cc.umich.edu, and it has
all the necessary font libraries).
 
Tom Rokicki's DVIPS is available via anonymous ftp from neon.stanford.edu.
 
If you don't have access to anonymous ftp, let me know and we'll see what
arrangements we can make for me to get this stuff to you (emTeX is quite
huge---6 HD 3 1/4" floppies---so I can't send it over Bitnet; if you can't
ftp it, you can get it from the latest DECUS TeX collection or you can send
me floppies or something---get in touch with me privately and we'll figure
something out).
 
Hunter Goatley, WKU, goathunter@wkuvx1.bitnet, 502-745-5251

DSTALDER@GMUVAX.BITNET (Torin/Darren Stalder/Wolf) (03/08/91)

I have been looking for a dvi driver for the HP LaserJet.  I found one that
is supposed to work with the LaserJet or IBM3812.  When I try to use, it my
system just sits there and does nothing.  In DesqView, I have to reboot the
window when in straight DOS, I have to reboot the machine.
 
I have a 386 running DOS 4.01 with 4M of memory.  The last time the history
file for the dvi2lj was updated was: 30 Oct 89.  The author is: Gustaf
Neumann.  It does seem to be for the PC.  Could someone help me with either
another LaserJet driver or a newer version of this one?
 
Thanks,
  Darren
 
P.S. Could people *puh-lease* stop sending requests for TUG to the list?  I
could understand that people might not read directions and send things like
HELP and UNSUB to the list, but the very message that said the stuff was
available gave the address to send to and INFO-TEX@SHSU was not it!!

neumann@dec4.wu-wien.ac.at (Gustaf Neumann) (03/10/91)

In article <A14BBF7A8600732B@Post-Office.UH.EDU>, DSTALDER@GMUVAX.BITNET (Torin/Darren Stalder/Wolf) writes:
|> I have been looking for a dvi driver for the HP LaserJet.  I found one that
|> is supposed to work with the LaserJet or IBM3812.  When I try to use, it my
|> system just sits there and does nothing.  In DesqView, I have to reboot the
|> window when in straight DOS, I have to reboot the machine.
Since you are referring to the ibm3812, it seems to me that you are talking
about my driver. I have heard that somebody has put a broken version into
the Simtel20 archives. The source is fine, the binary hangs the pc.
Please either recomplie the program using the microsoft c compiler
(check out, the options documented in the distribution are NOT optional),
or get a fresh copy via ftp from

	nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at:pub/src/Typeset/dvi2xx

Greetings,
-gustaf
-- 
Gustaf Neumann		neumann@dec4.wu-wien.ac.at, neumann@awiwuw11.bitnet
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration 
Augasse 2-6,  A-1090 Vienna, Austria		
Tel: +43 (222) 31-336 x4533  	Fax 347-555

elev35@castle.ed.ac.uk (R C Smith) (03/11/91)

In article <009454a5.10331fa0.6723@WKUVX1.BITNET> goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET ("Hunter Goatley, WKU") writes:
>>I have been looking for a dvi driver for the HP LaserJet.  I found one that
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>At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I strongly recommend emTeX for
>the PC,
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Is just me (or an old version of dvihplj) but when we used dvihplj we
wouldn't get page numbers at the top of our documents, so we went back
to dvijep....much more stable.