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From: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: HELP: dvi2lj (Gustaf Neumann) on sun386i dropping characters
Keywords: dvi2lj Neumann TeX LaserjetII
Message-ID: <1422@sas.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 90 19:17:39 GMT
References: <1021@umb.umb.edu>
Reply-To: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC
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In article <1021@umb.umb.edu> rouilj@umb.UUCP (John P. Rouillard) writes:
|	  The missing letters are 'i' or 'l'.

This is not a dvi2lj problem; it's a communications protocol problem.

This was happening to us when we first got a LaserJet II hooked up to our
Apollos.  Somebody eventually figured out that these characters are *10*
pixels wide--the code for ASCII nl.  Your computer is translating NL to
CR-NL; you need to make it stop.

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