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From: gsschaffer@watdaisy.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: PROFF... has anybody improved it yet??
Message-ID: <8263@watdaisy.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Apr-87 08:26:40 EST
Article-I.D.: watdaisy.8263
Posted: Tue Apr  7 08:26:40 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 9-Apr-87 03:41:16 EST
References: <657@sask.UUCP> <2510@dalcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: gsschaffer@watdaisy.UUCP (Greg Schaffer)
Organization: Computer Science Dept., University of Waterloo
Lines: 6
Keywords: bidirectional printers, Itoh
Summary: Bold, Underline, <BS> to printer

The "UNIX philosophy" solution is to write a filter, which would read
input with backspaces (for bold and underline) and process it into 
several lines (which are overprinted).  I wrote something like this once
to print a "troff -Tdumb" document from UNIX on a DEC-20.

-greg