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From: Brad Spencer <brad@anduin.eldar.org>
To: Jaap Akkerhuis <jaapna@xs4all.nl>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Troff to ps
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 07:07:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xonmu3l43og.fsf@anduin.eldar.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0D7B784A-1F7E-4377-A307-9C457E8A8C1D@xs4all.nl> (message from Jaap Akkerhuis on Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:19:36 +0200)

Jaap Akkerhuis <jaapna@xs4all.nl> writes:

>>> When was dpost born?
>>> 
>>> N.
>> 
>> Eighth Edition, as part of ditroff.  It wouldn't help on 2.11BSD anyway,
>> as dpost reads the ascii intermediate form from ditroff, not the C/A/T
>> typesetter codes from original troff.
>
> I don't know when it was born.  It came from the Documentors Work
> Bench (DWB).  The DWB used various to create the appropriate font
> tables using the target postscript interpreter the fonts were used.
> As far as I know, dpost and these tools were created by Rich Drechsler.
>
> 	jaap


I don't know when it was born either, but I do know that there was a
port of it to a Vax running System V at 6200 Broad Street where I worked
in the late 90s.  It is highly likely it was actually a port of DWB
running on the Vax, but I could not tell you for sure.  We had to use it
to get working output for one of the printers we had.





-- 
Brad Spencer - brad@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org

  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-27 11:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-26 14:56 Will Senn
2020-07-26 15:31 ` arnold
2020-07-26 15:35   ` arnold
2020-07-26 16:15     ` Clem Cole
2020-07-26 17:11       ` arnold
2020-07-26 18:03         ` Clem Cole
2021-01-27  5:24           ` Greg A. Woods
2021-01-28  0:19             ` John Gilmore
2021-01-28  1:25               ` Clem Cole
2021-01-28  1:59                 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-28  3:19                 ` John Gilmore
2021-01-28 12:58                 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-26 19:05   ` Nemo Nusquam
2020-07-26 22:39     ` Noel Hunt
2020-07-27  5:31     ` arnold
2020-07-27  9:19       ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2020-07-27 11:07         ` Brad Spencer [this message]
2020-07-27 15:58   ` Will Senn
2020-07-26 15:33 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-27 15:53   ` Will Senn
2020-07-26 18:09 ` Al Kossow
2020-07-26 23:37 Norman Wilson
2020-07-27 15:08 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2020-07-28 11:33 Doug McIlroy

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