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From: russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz
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Subject: DWB and PostScript
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Date: 14 Jun 90 04:45:28 GMT
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I enquired a few days ago as to how to get ditroff. Several helpful souls
pointed out that troff in the DWB was ditroff --- Thanks.

Now to the next part of the saga... I have now installed DWB and tried to
use it and it is now appearent that my first reading of the release notes
was infact correct. SGI have removed the PostScript support from DWB for
Irix 3.2.2 ( everybody has Transcript, don't they? ) If you use -Tpsc as
the man page tells you to then you get a message complaining about the
absence of /usr/lib/font/devpsc.

To get around this I tried installing tpscript (from the simtel archive)
Troff now complain that there are too many special characters defined in
.../devalw/DESC.out. Trumped again!

The README file for tpscript mentions this problem with version one of DWB
and expressed the hope that it would be fixed in later releases. Alas
it has not, we have v2.0. We don't have the sources for DWB so I am stuck.

Can any body suggest where I can go from here? I am not certain that transcript
will solve my problems since the printer is on a VAX and so I need a postscript
file that I can copy to the Vax to print.

Thanks for any ideas.

Russell.