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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!easix!knobel.gun.de!knobel!andreas From: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Are there troff filter programs available for NetBSD-1.0B ?? Date: 12 Sep 1994 21:13:52 GMT Organization: home, 41469 Neuss, Germany Lines: 31 Message-ID: <352gb3$4ba@knobel.gun.de> References: <34p56v$6s5@news.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: knobel.gun.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Mark Tamola (buckwild@u.washington.edu) wrote: : Please forgive me if this is the wrong group to post to, but I was just : wondering if there were any filter programs available for FTP somewhere : for my NetBSD-1.0B system and an Epson Stylus 800 printer that I have. : I do have X installed, but for right now at least, I would not like to : having to install ghostscript. Thus, groff would be my only alternative : for text processing (I don't want to have to compile TeX either!). It : would be nice to be able to use my printer under NetBSD (I use Windoze : right now, but would consider it much more educational to use troff, plus : I guess it would make me "hard core" 8-). : So, how about it? Has anyone written a groff fileter for the Epson Stylus : 800? If not, would anyone out there be willing to at least guide me on : how to right my own printer filter for groff? (It MUST be possible!!) : If not that, any books or docs or FAQs on how to do this? My advice ... forget about creating a filter for groff ;-) Too much unnecessary work. Much simpler is to use groff and gs. Groff creates nice Postscript and gs 3.01 support now the stylus800 directly. Get apsfilter (aps-3.01) to get the PS printing functionality by default ... This works here like a charm. Andreas /// -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ - Support Unix - akl@wup.de -