Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!littlei!foobar!mikew From: mikew@foobar.hf.intel.com (Mike Wright) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Need Ditroff for Matrix Printers Message-ID: <196@semike.foobar.hf.intel.com> Date: 1 Jun 88 17:33:08 GMT References: <281@ucrmath.UUCP> Sender: news@foobar.hf.intel.com Organization: - Intel Corp - Hawthorne Farms - Hillsboro, OR - Lines: 27 From article <281@ucrmath.UUCP>, by jantypas@hope.UUCP (John Antypas): > I know we've all seen this before, but I still need a ditroff post > processor for a matrix printer (Epson Fx8{0/5} type.) I know -- why would > anyone want a matrix printer for this! (People keep asking it over and over!) > Well: [ much stuff deleted] > > John Antypas -- Soft21 --21st Century Software: > > UUCP: {buita|garp|killer|pyramid|reed|sdeggo|ucsd!ucrmath|uport}!soft21!jantypas > Internet: jantypas%soft21.uucp@{garp.MIT.EDU, ucsd.EDU} BITNET: jantypas@ucrvms If you are interested, I have written just such a beast. It takes ditroff output and makes page images for an Epson [RF]X-80. It could probably be changed quite easily for other dot-matrix printers. If anyone wants a copy - please let me know and I can arrange to send it to you. Please be aware that it is quite slow and produces ENOURMOUS amounts of output - but it does look amazingly nice if I say so myself. -- -mikew (Mike Wright, (503)696-7281, Intel Corp; Hillsboro OR) ...tektronix!psu-cs! \ ...uunet!vrdxhq!verdix!omepd!littlei! > foobar!semike!mikew ...reed!littlei! /