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From: hamm@waks.DECnet ("WAKS::HAMM")
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Subject: How can I use an LN01S?
Message-ID: <8611190658.AA10748@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Wed, 19-Nov-86 02:00:13 EST
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Summary: Can an LN01S be used for TeX or anything else useful?

[I'm sending this to both INFO-VAX and LASER-LOVERS;  apologies if you
see it twice.]

I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who is actually using a DEC LN01S on a
VAX/VMS system.  I have just inherited one still in its box, and have no idea
what it's good for.  (I also have something called the "LN01 Font Utility".)
Earlier comments on the net seemed to indicate that the LN01 was limited to two
applications:  emulating a lineprinter, and emulating a doorstop.  I wonder if
these comments apply to the LN01S as well, or whether they represented just a
general moan from people who were hoping for the Printserver-40 two years ago.

Any information will be appreciated, but I also have a few specific questions:

1) What's the difference (in user terms) between the LN01 and the LN01S?

2) Does anyone have a usable method for getting TeX output on the LN01S?

3) ditto for PostScript :-)?

4) Has anyone connected one of these via a terminal server of any kind?

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[[Editor's note:  There is a LN01S TeX driver on the Unix TeX tape
(courtesy of MIT, I believe I recall), but this poor fellow is on a
VMS machine...			--Rick ]]