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From: mc68020@gilsys.UUCP (Thomas J Keller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: nroff/Toshiba printer driver
Message-ID: <1143@gilsys.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 25-Oct-87 01:13:19 EST
Article-I.D.: gilsys.1143
Posted: Sun Oct 25 01:13:19 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 27-Oct-87 03:51:50 EST
Organization: Consequently Computers, Santa Rosa, Ca
Lines: 31
Keywords: Toshiba P351, nroff, drivers


   Ah.  I have just received a brand new whizbang Toshiba P351 Model 2
printer, which is capable of some marvelous feats (for a dot matrix printer).
What I need to know is how to make nroff output REASONABLE sequences to 
generate bold and underlined text.  The default backspace-after-every-
character cruft isn't cool...it's going to shake my new printer, and its
printer stand, to pieces in short order!

   Environment:  Tandy 6000, running XENIX 3.0.  The nroff supplied seems
to be SYSIII nroff, I have ms, man, and mm macro packages.  The document
currently vibration testing my printer was formatted under the MS macros.

   I tried using the program and information posted to comp.sources.unix
several months ago to build my own printer driver table with absolutely no
luck whatever.  No matter WHAT I did, if I used a table built by that 
program, it just *TRASHED* my file (no aspersions on the author of the 
program intended...I am sure the fault lies in some stupidity committed
at and by Tandy).

   I have tried unsuccessfully to obtain the needed information from Tandy.
They claim that this information is (hold on to your keyboard!) PROPRIETARY!
What a bunch of unmitigated hogwash!

   In any case, if anyone out there can help, I would be DEEPLY appreciative.
I would even be tempted to say THANK YOU!  (-:


-- 
Tom Keller 
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