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Subject: Re: UNIX troff and XEROX printers.
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Date: Sun, 3-Mar-85 16:12:08 EST
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From: cornell!bonnie!lda@uw-beaver.arpa (Larry Auton)

I have two Xerox 2700 II's running under System V Release 2.0.
They are equipped with parallel Dataproducts interfaces.
We are driving them from VAX-11/780's with DEC LP11 cards.

We are using a device independent troff driver (dx2700) from

                   VOELKER-LEHMAN SYSTEMS, INC.
                   44000 Warm Springs Blvd.
                   Fremont, California 94538

                   Contact: Michael Sweeney
                       (415) 490-3555
		   ihnp4!bonnie!vlsvax1!michael

We got this driver several months ago as a beta-test site.  It has
performed beautifully.  It supports all of the troff preprocessors like
PIC, IDEAL, GRAP, EQN, and TBL.  The code is very stable (ie, only 1
change since we got it), and is very efficient.  The VLS people did an
excellent job of planning before putting this system on the market.
The documentation is also very good (surprise!).

The dx2700 package comes with lots of goodies for building fonts from
other font files that you may have around.  I was able to use all of
the font files that I had on hand from Image Network (the xroff people)
with dx2700.  The "troff|dx2700" combination also uses about twenty
percent less CPU time than xroff and prints at about 10 pages per
minute (our version xroff prints about 4 pages per minute).

The VLS software will run on a wide variety of machines and UNIX
versions.  It was developed on a VAX-11/780 4.2 BSD machine, and has
been ported to System V [ Release 2.0 ] on VAX, 3B20, 3B5 and 3B2.

Since we got dx2700 on a beta-test agreement, we didn't have to pay for
it (with $$); so I don't know what they charge for the system.

Larry Auton
(201)386-4272
ihnp4!bonnie!lda
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Larry Auton
(201)386-4272
ihnp4!bonnie!lda