Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!wanginst!ucadmus!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!lcc.barry@UCLA-LOCUS.ARPA From: Barry GoldNewsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: print filter Message-ID: <7058@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 10:26:39 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7058 Posted: Mon Jan 7 10:26:39 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Jan-85 02:18:17 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 22 The Fortune Systems 32:16 has a really neat way of handling printers. There is a printcap file, analogous to termcap, which is used by the lp daemon. This makes it easy to adapt a wide variety of printers for use with their system. (A good idea with a supermicro that's likely to be used with anything from decwriters to expensive NEC and Diablo printers or even multi-font, high- resolution dot matrix printers.) Unfortunately, only their word processing software (Fortune:Word) actually makes use of printcap. I haven't found any way to make other things (like nroff) make use of it. I've been considering an nroff-output to Fortune:Word filter for some time. Also nroff input (mm/ms) to/from F:W. Real soon now... Meanwhile it would be nice if Fortune Systems made the various parts of their system work together. I've got this *really nice* home computer that's rapidly becoming obsolete as things like the PC/AT come out with more advanced unix systems. barry gold lcc.barry@ucla-cs ucbvax!ucla-cs!lcc!barry