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From: gst@gnosys.UUCP (Gary S. Trujillo)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: UNIXpc nroff driver tables [REPOST]
Message-ID: <135@gnosys.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 89 07:04:43 GMT
References: <130@gnosys.UUCP> <705@jhereg.Jhereg.MN.ORG>
Reply-To: gst@gnosys.UUCP (Gary S. Trujillo)
Organization: gst's 3B1 - Somerville, Massachusetts
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In article <705@jhereg.Jhereg.MN.ORG> mark@jhereg.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn) writes:
> In article <130@gnosys.UUCP> gst@gnosys.UUCP (Gary S. Trujillo [me]) writes:
> >I have been trying to follow the instructions in NTERM(5) of the 3.51
> >Users' Manual (Volume 1) to construct a driver table to let me get at
> >special characters on my NEC P2200 printer.  The problem is that these
> >characters commonly require output of a character whose magnitude is
> >greater than those defined in the standard ASCII character set...
> 
> The key is to add a % before 8 bit values.  I found this out by digging
> through the source code for ditroff.  It was not in the manual anywhere,
> *sigh*.

Mark is right.  It works just fine on the 3B1.  Thanks to him and also
to ilan343@berkeley.violet.edu for making the same suggestion, as well
as to Wolf Paul, who suggested a nroff post-processor, such as that found
in the comp.sources.unix "nroffgraphics" tools (volume 15) and Stephen J.
Friedl, who sent some actual code he wrote.  It's really to have you guys
out there - your suggestions saved me a lot of time and aggravation!

	Gary
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