Xref: utzoo comp.text:1992 comp.lang.postscript:647 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!ig!uwmcsd1!leah!itsgw!steinmetz!vdsvax!barnett From: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.lang.postscript Subject: SunOS 4.0 and Sun Transcript warning Summary: SunOS 4.0 and Sun TransScript 2.0 don't mix. Message-ID: <4588@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 9 Jun 88 20:51:16 GMT Reply-To: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 28 I just today heard (from Sam Wong@Sun (sp?)) that the current version of TransScript (2.0) that Sun supports will not run when you upgrade to SunOS 4.0. You need Sun TranScript 2.1. A Beta version will be available in July. The release notes state that TranScript 2.0 will work in SunOS 4.0. My contact @ Sun tells me this is a printing error. Apparently Sun has made some changes to troff, to support wider pages (allowing TranScript to work in landscape mode). The default font widths have been modified for better PostScript support. (So you can type "troff -t |lpr -Premote -t" without having TransScript installed). In addition, some changes were made with the eqn package to better support the "natural" PostScript symbols. (Sorry for the vagueness. My release notes are currently a mile from here.) We are doing our first SunOS 4.0 installation today, and haven't experienced this first hand. I thought Youse Net People may want to know this before you take the plunge into SunOS 4.0. :-( I don't know if Adobe's 2.1 release will work with SunOS 4.0. If someone has hacked the sources, could you let me know? (It may be time for a quick order to Elan for ditroff :-) Someone please tell me I am wrong........ -- Bruce G. Barnett uunet!steinmetz!barnett