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From: bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral)
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Subject: Re: Postscript printer for the M120
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Date: 25 Jul 89 15:14:55 GMT
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From article <23983@abbott.mips.COM>, by rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese):
> In article <2902@mit-caf.MIT.EDU> gavin@mit-caf.UUCP (Gavin C. H. Zau) writes:
>>
>>	We have just bought a Apple laserwriter II NTX for our
>>M120.  Is there any program that would plot data for postscript
>>printing?  and is there any text formatting and outputting programs
>>that works?  Any information on hooking up and programs for using
>>the MIPS and the postscript printer will be appreciated.
> 
> Contact Adobe.  Transcript, and perhaps other of their Postscript tools, are
> ported to MIPS RISComputers.
Another possibility is to use thack, which was recently posted to the net.
It takes old-style troff and converts it to PostScript.  As its name implies,
thack isn't commercial quality, so you wouldn't want to use it for production
work, but for getting output, it's a quick start, and old troff comes with
standard output with -t to avoid the dread "Typesetter busy" message.

Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu