From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 15091 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2020 11:31:10 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 27 Jul 2020 11:31:10 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 9C9169CAAB; Mon, 27 Jul 2020 21:31:07 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAA129C9DF; Mon, 27 Jul 2020 21:29:59 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id A9D799C9DF; Mon, 27 Jul 2020 21:29:55 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 1361 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2020 21:29:55 AEST Received: from anduin.eldar.org (anduin.eldar.org [24.106.248.90]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0567C9C8E2 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2020 21:29:54 +1000 (AEST) Received: from anduin.eldar.org (IDENT:brad@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by anduin.eldar.org (8.15.2/8.13.8) with ESMTPS id 06RB7Cnp028844 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 27 Jul 2020 07:07:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from brad@localhost) by anduin.eldar.org (8.15.2/8.13.8/Submit) id 06RB7Bb4016390; Mon, 27 Jul 2020 07:07:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Brad Spencer To: Jaap Akkerhuis In-Reply-To: <0D7B784A-1F7E-4377-A307-9C457E8A8C1D@xs4all.nl> (message from Jaap Akkerhuis on Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:19:36 +0200) Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 07:07:11 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (anduin.eldar.org [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 27 Jul 2020 07:07:12 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [TUHS] Troff to ps X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" Jaap Akkerhuis 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