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From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Sources for DVIESP?
Message-ID: <368.246640A9@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: 8 May 89 23:21:34 GMT
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I've recently obtained DosTeX, and it's, well, "neat".  However, it would
be even "neater" if I could print the "neato" things that it produces --
It seems that my Star NX-10 printer is not as Epson-compatable as it
could be.  The .ESP file that DVIESP produces start out with 0x1B 0x33
0x00, which is the Epson escape code to set the line spacing to
0/216 inch.  However, for some reason, the Star only supports line
spacings of 1-255 216ths of an inch.  I've talked to Star tech support,
and the guy said that there is no way to set the line spacing to 0 inches.

Is there a DVI converter for the Star NX-10 (IBM graphics printer would
also work)?  Failing that, can I get the sources to DVIESP so I can modify
it to work right?  (I can just load up the .ESP file with ZipZap and
change the 0x00 to 0x01, which "sort-of" works, but I'd rather have
the real solution...)

On a slightly different note, it seems that DVIESP is being a huge memory
hog.  When I try to convert the SAMPLE.DVI file from CDVI v1.2, it
bombs with an "out of memory error" on my 640K machine.  The only device
driver that is loaded is ANSI.SYS, and I have FILES=40 and BUFFERS=20.
If I try to just do page 1, it still halts with an out of memory error,
but this time my computer also says "Cannot load COMMAND, system halted",
and crashes.  Not too nice.  Is there a way to typeset documents larger
than half a page with this program?  Can it use EMS (I have 512K of LIM 4.0
expanded memory)?

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Marc Unangst
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