From: utzoo!decvax!cca!rice!milazzo@Lbl-Unix@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re:  Request for LAN information
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.4386
Posted: Wed Nov 24 19:36:50 1982
Received: Fri Nov 26 01:48:56 1982

From:     Paul Milazzo <rice!milazzo@Lbl-Unix>
Date:     23 Nov 1982 5:27-CST
I'm afraid that I don't know what a Xerox 8040 printer is, but at Rice
University we are interested in interfacing the 8044/8045 laser print
server to both Troff and TeX, and of course we would place such
software in the public domain.  Unfortunately, there are two major
difficulties we have yet to overcome:

   1) We don't yet have an 8044 (but we're working on it).
   2) Xerox is reluctant to release the full details of the
      Interpress format.  The text format is very similar to
      Press, but we would like to be able to use the graphics
      format as well.

Perhaps if sufficient interest could be demonstrated, the potential
market might convince Xerox to overcome their reluctance.

				Paul Milazzo,
				Dept. of Mathematical Sciences
				Rice University, Houston TX