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From: hjp@bambam.UUCP (Howard J. Postley)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Print Server
Message-ID: <7@bambam.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 88 03:29:20 GMT
References: <6770@sigi.Colorado.EDU> <22198@amdcad.AMD.COM> <22208@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Organization: On Word, Inc.; Santa Monica, CA
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In article <22208@amdcad.AMD.COM>, phil@amdcad.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) writes:
> In article <22198@amdcad.AMD.COM> percy@amdcad.UUCP (Percy Irani) writes:
> >
> >We have used the Imagen printer with their Ethernet server.
> >Works well for Unix and VMS hosts. 
> 
> I disagree, I don't even use it because the default type size is not
> pica and you have to waste time screwing around with troff or such to
> get things to look normal. 
> 
> I complained about this to Percy and was ignored.

I don't know how you guys at AMD set your printer up but on ours
the font is controlled by the "of" filter in /etc/printcap and
the default font is settable in an environment variable.  Admittedly,
the default default font (failing setting the var to change it) is
not Courier.  Bummer |-).

// Howard
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On Word             phone:   +1 213 399 7733
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