Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!amdahl!dacseg From: dacseg@uts.amdahl.com (Scott E. Garfinkle) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: SysV3.2 doesn't know Postscipt. So what. Message-ID: <75Oq02tRadot01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> Date: 7 Jun 90 16:48:19 GMT References: <51@raysnec.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 31 From article <51@raysnec.UUCP>, by shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake): > In article sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes: >>Are the AT&T people stupid, or what? Did they think no one was ever going >>to use postscript? What shortsightedness. What a *pain*. I think it is foolish to say this. Troff has been around since (at least) Version 6 Unix. When it came out, the dominant phototypesetter around (at least at Bell Labs, I think) was the C/A/T. Eventually, with ditroff, it became possible to put other back ends on troff. I think that the Labs replaced their C/A/T phototypesetters with Imagens. (They were replaced with *something* -- I remember when they gave our department a surplus C/A/T my senior year.) Since AT&T doesn't even support DWB anymore, I can hardly fault them. If you want a free typesetting package get TeX. If you want troff, get Elan or a competitor. > I personally find it amazing that the typical UNIX document processing > package supports such an atypical collection of printers. Like, really, > how many of your colleagues count a a C/A/T or Imagen photo typesetter > in their installations. Yet any good DOS-based word processor from Word > Perfect, Microsoft, Lyrix, et. al. will support myriad collections of > dot-matrix, ink jet, Postscript, HP-compatible, etc. printers. So get MS Word for Unix from SCO. I'm curious where you got DWB for your 386; I thought the only way to get n/troff for the 386 was from Elan, et al., who all include postscript drivers. Alternatively, get vp/ix and run your favorite DOS package under it. I use MS Word. -scott e. garfinkle email to segpc!seg@vicom.com