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From: JOHNSON%nuhub.acs.northeastern.edu@RELAY.CS.NET ("I am only an egg.")
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Subject: plot symbiont for what?
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Date: Thu, 11-Sep-86 09:17:00 EDT
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>Not wishing to reinvent the wheel, I'd like to
>know if anyone has a plot symbiont that I could
>have. 
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Robert McQueen Stevens
>Institute of Technology
>BITNET: RMCQUEEN@SITVXA 

     Plot symbiont for what?  Versatec makes one for their eletrostatic
plotters.  It works under vms v4.4 form a real vms printer queue.  I
tried it and t worked fine.  It came with their driver tape.

     On the other hand, if your going to something like an hp-7550A you
can just run it as a terminal printer queue and let the printer symbiont
do all the work.  It just talks an ascii stream.  We do it for SAS,
SPSSX, RS/1, and 20/20 all the time.  Of course you have to turn off all 
the flag/burst stuff on the device queue and set up a form with 
/NOTRUNCATE and /NOWRAP for it to run right.

     Do you have some other strange plotter?

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