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From: wayne@dsndata.uucp (Wayne Schlitt)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: HPGL Specification
Message-ID: <WAYNE.90Jan4131536@dsndata.uucp>
Date: 4 Jan 90 19:15:38 GMT
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In-reply-to: hlison@bbn.com's message of 3 Jan 90 22:12:30 GMT


In article <13326@silica.BBN.COM> hlison@bbn.com (Herb Lison) writes:
> 
> Does any documentation exist for the HPGL specification?  If so,
> where can I get a copy?
> 


I dont know of any offical HPGL specification.  What we have always
used is the programmer manuals that come with the plotters.  If you
find an offical specification, I would be interested, although we
would still probably use the plotter manuals.  Not all HP plotters are
100% compatable.  We have to use a subset of HPGL that is common to
all the plotters that we support.  (including the 7580A, a 6 year old
plotter that was missing quite a few things...)


-wayne