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From: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP (Piercarlo Grandi)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: troff and HP Laserjet II
Summary: Urban Applied Sciences, JetRoff are quite good.
Message-ID: <1512@aber-cs.UUCP>
Date: 11 Dec 89 16:23:45 GMT
Reply-To: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
Organization: Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth
	(Disclaimer: my statements are purely personal)
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In article <1989Dec5.095840.9792@cs.eur.nl> reino@cs.eur.nl (Reino de Boer) writes:
    kvk@cbnewse.ATT.COM (Kevin) writes:
    
    >I have the same problem. I know Elan Corp sells a troff version for the
    >PC for I believe about $500, but I'd really like to use my mainframe
    
    They also sell software for UNIX on minis and mainframes.

Vastly cheaper is JetRoff, a package by Rick Richardson. It is a shareware
ditroff-to-LJII filter, that comes with a few interesting accessories, and
quite a few fonts.  Registering costs $100 for companies and $50 for
individuals. It comes with full source code, and is highly portable. An
older, but working, version, has been posted to comp.sources.unix (or
.misc?).

There have been a number of plugs for the product on the net, so apparently
many people have tried it on several machines, and been happy.

Urban Applied Sciences redistributes JetRoff with a cheap ditroff *binary*,
for a cost under $200. It is unextended ditroff, but I don't think that is a
problem if you are on a budget. They may have it only for 386 Unixes, though.

Rick Richardson can be reached as 'uunet!pcrat!rick' or at (201) 389 8963.
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