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Subject: Re: Print Symbionts
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Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 00:37:45 EDT
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From: Kevin Carosso <engvax!KVC@cit-vax>

I know that Talaris Systems Inc. in San Diego have a symbiont for VMS V4
for the QMS laser printers.  Talaris sells fonts and support for TeX and
TROFF on the QMS lasers.  They have a symbiont that keeps track of fonts
in the machine as files you print need them.  Also, if you don't need the
font management, I know that they have gotten rid of the symbiont they
had under VMS V3 that made sure the QMS was initialized, etc. between
jobs and now do everything with the standard VMS symbiont and the
device control library mechanism.  Maybe you can get by with that?  It'd
certainly save you a lot of time and effort.  If you need the font management,
then you may be able to justify getting the stuff from Talaris for
whatever they charge.  We have their stuff for TeX and TROFF and are
quite happy with it.

A different note on the same subject.  Does anyone out there have a
modified or user-written symbiont for VMS V4 that handles security
headers and trailers on every page of output????   We really need
something to do this, and I don't want to waste the time doing it over
if someone already has one.  I know there was a DECUS session in New
Orleans about user-modified symbionts and the speaker used security
banners as an example, but I was unable to attend that session and the
VAX notes had a simpler example.  Anyone know who gave the session?
Is the code available?  Did it really handle security headers?

We have (had under V3 anyway) a modified symbiont from DEC called
SPRINT that did security banners.  we have been unsuccessful in getting
DEC to even agree on the existence of such a thing for V4.  In fact,
most of the people we've contacted at DEC are dubious that we ever even
had such a thing for V3!  It was one of those "some local office somewhere
wrote it" specials.....   Oh well.  Anyone out there heard of SPRINT or,
even better, SPRINT for V4?

Thanks...

	/Kevin Carosso          engvax!kvc @ CIT-VAX.ARPA
	 Hughes Aircraft Co.