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From: giebelhaus@hi-csc.UUCP (Timothy R. Giebelhaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: troff to postscript
Message-ID: <38e93b56.bab@hi-csc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 6-Dec-87 18:06:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  6 18:06:00 1987
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References: <8712040404.AA18107@caen.engin.umich.edu>
Organization: Honeywell CSDD, Golden Valley, MN
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Summary: The trick is...

In article <8712040404.AA18107@caen.engin.umich.edu>, bhoward@CAEN.ENGIN.UMICH.EDU (Bruce Howard) writes:
> [...]
> Oh that...we got Transcript running on our Apollo ring a few weeks
> ago.  It's no big deal to port (offhand, I don't recall us making 
> any changes) but it is designed to work with the Berkeley print
> system.  Unfortunately, the Berkeley system doesn't know about Apollo
> bitmaps so we don't use it for now.  This also means we haven't
> integrated Transcript into our environment very well.

The way which works pretty nicely is to use both the berkley printing and
the aegis prf.  I have a line in my printcap like:
lp|ge|line printer:\
        :pc=/com/prf -banner off -text -npag -headers off:lp=/dev/null:\
        :sd=/usr/spool/lpd/lp:if=/usr/lib/lpf:\
        :af=/usr/adm/lpacct:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:

I believe you could add the troff filter to this.  Then you could use
the transcript for your troff and plot files and still have access to
prf for those who don't like unix or need to print screen dumps.

Could you please send me the transcript software?
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