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From: patrick@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Patrick McKinley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: What is HPGL?
Message-ID: <640003@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Date: 8 Nov 88 23:39:15 GMT
References: <3f87015d.bf13@apollo.COM>
Organization: HP Design Tech Center - Santa Clara, CA
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 What is HPGL?

 HPGL is the name for Hewlett Packard Graphic Language, which is an ASCII
 based language "read" by all HP plotters (and other things now as well).
 It is a simple language for selecting pens, moving or drawing lines, arcs
 and even text from firmware fonts.  

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