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From: sklower@rosemary.Berkeley.EDU.berkeley.edu (Keith Sklower)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Problems with 4.3BSD dipress
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Date: Thu, 6-Aug-87 15:41:05 EDT
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Keywords: Interpress Toolkit, dipress

In article <125@aiva.ed.ac.uk> jpd@eusip.uucp (Paul Dourish) writes:
>I use ditroff to format documents for an Interpress (Xerox 8044) printer.
> [text deleted]
>Ditroff runs fine, but runing dipress produces errors like this (I've editted
>them to fit in 80 columns):
>
>(eusip)1% bin/dipress -f lib/fonts/8044 -t simple.dit > simple.ip
>dipress: no interpress equivalent for troff font X0111bbbbbbbbbb;;000X0      \
>[More text deleted]
>Does anyone have any ideas about how I can fix this?
>
>                                                     -- Paul.
>-- 
>Paul Dourish,                ARPA:  jpd%ed.eusip@cs.ucl.ac.uk
>Speech Input Project,        UUCP:  ...!mcvax!ukc!eusip!jpd

Somewhere about the time 4.3 went out, the person supporting ditroff
decide we should go back to Bell's original notion of how big a font
name should be -- 10 characters, instead of that which was in 4.2,
3 characters.

We get similar inscrutable error messages when mixing a new dipress with
old ditroff font width tables, or conversely.  I would guess that you are
using the 4.2 ditroff width tables, (or rather the 4.2 version of
the ``binary compiling'' utility, makedev).

Try changing the fields font_name, font_number of structure font_entry in
dipress/src/bin/deviceinfo.h to be 3  wide instead of 10, or else
change the corresponding fields in ditroff/driver/dev.h to be 10 instead of 3.