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From: jerryp@tektools.UUCP (Jerry Peek)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: plotter output on the pc
Message-ID: <1392@tektools.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-Aug-86 16:04:22 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 19 16:04:22 1986
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References: <295@mit-amt.MIT.EDU> <601@ur-tut.UUCP>
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In article <601@ur-tut.UUCP> akk2@ur-tut.UUCP (A Kacker) writes:
> In article <295@mit-amt.MIT.EDU> hoque@media-lab.UUCP (Tareq Hoque) writes:
> >
> >
> >Does anybody know of a graphics, drawing, cad or animation package for the 
> >pc that can make a file output that can later be dumped to a pen plotter
> >for plotting?
>
> How about using programs that redirect printer output to a disk file?
> I know of at least two in the public domain. LPTX and PSPOOL, both of which
> I am sure are in ftp'able archives somewhere. They can also be found in the
> Libraries of most decent BBS's. This way you can use any graphics package
> that you want. I have a friend who does this with his AutoCAD package at home
> and then prints it out on the HP LaserJet/HP Plotters at work.

Who knows where some of these might be?  I've got *lots* of uses for a program
like this.  I'd like to, say, dump some reports from Time Line to a printer
that's connected to our UN*X system -- by way of a temporary disk file or
whatever.

I'd appreciate a copy via e-mail (or maybe on net.sources?).

--Jerry Peek, Tektronix, Inc.
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