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From: mg@cidam.me.rmit.oz (Mike A. Gigante)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: tek4014 previewer?
Message-ID: <376@cidam.me.rmit.oz>
Date: Mon, 4-May-87 17:19:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: cidam.376
Posted: Mon May  4 17:19:58 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 6-May-87 05:38:15 EDT
References: <2028@uwmcsd1.UUCP>
Organization: RMIT Mech and Prod Engineering, Melbourne, Australia
Lines: 16
Keywords: cheap, UN-usable?
Summary: bandwidth (lack of) will kill you

In article <2028@uwmcsd1.UUCP>, dave@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (David A Rasmussen) writes:
> 
> I was pondering whether anyone uses tektronix terminals or emulators to
> do crude previewing of TEX and or ditroff output? 
>
> Dave Rasmussen c/o Computing Services Division @ U of WI - Milwaukee


Even at 9600 baud, you'll wait forever to see a complex page. I know because
until 6 months ago, I used a 4014 to preview output from a graphics rendering
program I wrote (using dither of a greyscale'd raster file)-- it is *painfull*. 
I had no choice since it was even more painfull to get the raster file to the
only place I could see it in it's full glory.  Since you have a choice, (a 
nearby laserprinter I assume), I'd just print it off.

Mike Gigante, RMIT, Australia