wwm@pmsmam.uucp (Bill Meahan) (11/29/90)
I have a Seikosha SL-80AI 24-pin dot-matrix printer which is capable of emulating either an Epson LQ (Seikosha is Epson's sister division at Seiko) or an IBM Pro-Printer, as well as a generic Epson 9-pin. I would like to find a DVI driver that would take advantage of the 24-pin features and have noted such items for PCs, usually as binary distributions. That does me little good since I don't have a PC :-) Can anyone point me to source for such a beast so that I can compile it for my at&t 3b1 (UNIX V.2)?? BTW TeX for the 3b1 is a 3.0 implementation with the Mittlebach font scheme in LaTeX. Thanks to all for the info! -- Bill Meahan WA8TZG | For God so loved the world, uunet!mailrus!umich!pmsmam!wwm | He didn't send a committee. "I do NOT speak for anyone | -Anonymous but me, myself and I!" | (especially a STANDARDS committee ;-)
jdc@naucse.cse.nau.edu (John Campbell) (12/01/90)
From article <1990Nov29.140647.4325@pmsmam.uucp>, by wwm@pmsmam.uucp (Bill Meahan): > > I would like to find a DVI driver that would take advantage of the 24-pin > features and have noted such items for PCs, usually as binary distributions. > > Can anyone point me to source for such a beast so that I can compile it > for my at&t 3b1 (UNIX V.2)?? > I have a compressed tar file for dvi2nec if anyone is interested. I don't think the author has ftp access--this was the second posting of his dvi2nec so perhaps it is archived somewhere. I found, by the way, that it ran slower than it should have on the 3b1. I was investigating this when my machine died (gcc sped it up some, but left a black line down one side). It may not be exactly what you need, but perhaps close? I'm not sure what the Epson, NEC 24 pin differences are for bitmapped images. Note that you'll want to create 360 dpi font files. I don't know what the Mittlebach font scheme is, but I had to recreate all the fonts using meta-font. I chose to do this on a Sun rather than on the 3b1. Is everyone switching from Ed Hepler's TeX to Andy Fyfes? Andy's previewer, by the way, is *very* good (IMHO). Can't wait to get may 3b1 running again so I can TeX away! -- John Campbell jdc@naucse.cse.nau.edu CAMPBELL@NAUVAX.bitnet unix? Sure send me a dozen, all different colors.