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From: russ@wpg.UUCP (Russell Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: nroff help
Message-ID: <218@wpg.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Nov-87 11:35:17 EST
Article-I.D.: wpg.218
Posted: Wed Nov 18 11:35:17 1987
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In article <6686@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> In article <202@altnet.UUCP> dale@altnet.UUCP (dale) writes:
> >I have a system III machine for which I have acquired a DIABLO 630
> >printer. I would like nroff to understand this printer. What do I (do)...
> 
> That's DASI 300 & 450, not daisy.  A DASI 300 was a HyType I printer
> and a DASI 450 was a HyType II printer, as I understand it.  The
> Diablo 630 is a HyType II printer, I think, so use "nroff -T450".

Unfortunately, the -T450 switch does not really work perfectly for the 630.
I don't have the manuals with me at the moment, but as I recall there were
some minor changes in the 630's command set that screw up 'tbl' and 'eqn'.
Also, there are several different flavors of the 630:  a basic 630 and a 
more "intelligent" version.  The more intelligent version would have a fully
extended HPR05 board that performs a lot of word processing functions ---
proportional spacing, underlining, shadow print, etc.  We were unable to most
of those features until we got our hands on Bruce Townsend's table building
programs.  Our ps mode still s*cks (thanks to bugs in nroff), but at least
we get pretty good tables.

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