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author | Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> | 2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900 |
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diff --git a/dviware/beebe/updates/00mail.10 b/dviware/beebe/updates/00mail.10 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6c8f945f68 --- /dev/null +++ b/dviware/beebe/updates/00mail.10 @@ -0,0 +1,387 @@ +20-Aug-87 08:46:00-MDT,18698;000000000000 +Date: Thu 20 Aug 87 08:46:00-MDT +From: "Nelson H.F. Beebe" <Beebe@SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU> +Subject: DVI driver family update #10 +To: "DVI mailing list": ; +cc: BEEBE@SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU, "new addresses": ; +X-US-Mail: "Center for Scientific Computation, South Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112" +X-Telephone: (801) 581-5254 +Message-ID: <12328007179.15.BEEBE@SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU> + + DVI Driver Family Update #10 + [18-Aug-87] + +Version 2.08 of the driver family is now ready. Except for +the Atari support, this is a maintenance release only, with +minor cleanup, a couple of small bug fixes, and cosmetic +changes to make the installation process smoother, with no +unnecessary compilation warning messages which have been +causing concern to some users. + +Unless you have been impacted by one of the bugs, or want +the Atari support, or the test version of the Canon LBP-A2 +driver, it should not be necessary to update your sources. +I will, however, provide the European redistribution sites +for Bitnet and Janet with up-to-date versions. Because +these changes affect a large number of modules, it is not +worthwhile here to provide difference listings. + +This work had to be completed in time for me to make new +master diskettes to take to the TUG meeting in Seattle next +week. I had hoped to finish the support for resident Imagen +fonts in time for this release, but it will have to wait. + +Beginning September 1987, I expect that IBM PC floppies of +the DVI driver family will be available from from Personal +TeX. The details will be ironed out at the TUG meeting next +week, and announced on TeXHaX and this mailing list. + +For the European Bitnet server: Contact rz92@dhdurz1.bitnet + +For the British Janet server: Contact AbbottP@uk.ac.aston.mail + +The subject of how to set up a VMS printer spooler for the +HP LaserJet has come up repeatedly. Portia Shao reported +the following approach recently: + +>> Date: Wed, 13 May 87 18:42 PDT +>> From: Portia 616-2635 <PORTIA@ENGVAX.SCG.HAC.COM> +>> Subject: re: setting up HP laserjet + +>> +>> In response to the person asking about setup modules etc for the laserjet+ +>> +>> This is how we set up our HP laser jet + on our microvax II. +>> +>> in systartup.com we have: +>> $define/system laserjet $terminal7: ! substibute your terminal line here +>> $set terminal laserjet/perm/nobroadcast/notypeahead/nowrap - +>> /speed=9600/width=80/page=0/device_type = unknown +>> $set device /spooled=(sys$print, sys$sysdevice:) laserjet +>> $initialize/queue/start/lib=laserjetlib/separate=(reset=reset) - +>> /on=laserjet/default=flag sys$print +>> $define/form/stock=default portrait 1 /desc="Portrait Courier" - +>> /setup=(portrait) /length=60/wid=80/margin=(bottom=0)/nowrap/notrunc +>> $define/form/stock=default landscape 2 /desc="Landscape"/setup=(landscape) - +>> /length=45/wid=132/margin=(bottom=0)/nowrap/notrunc +>> $define/form/stock=default compressed 3 /desc="Compressed Portrait" - +>> /setup=(compressed) /length=80/wid=120/margin=(bottom=0) - +>> /nowrap/notrunc +>> +>> and we have the following modules in sys$library:laserjetlib.tlb +>> COMPRESSED,LANDSCAPE,PORTRAIT,RESET +>> +>> where compressed.txt has the following ONE line +>> +>> <esc>E<esc>&l0O<esc>&a5l80M<esc>&a0R<esc>&l8D<esc>&l80F<esc>(8U<esc>(s0p16.66h +>> 8.5v0s0b0T +>> +>> landscape.txt has the following ONE LINE +>> +>> <esc>E<esc>&l10<esc>&l55F<esc>(8U<esc>(s0p10h12v0s0b3T +>> +>> portrait.txt has the following ONE line +>> +>> <esc>E<esc>&l0O<esc>&a5180M<esc>&a0R<esc>&l60F<esc>(8U<esc>(s0p10h12v0s0b3T +>> +>> and reset.txt has the following line +>> +>> <esc>E +>> +>> -- Portia Shao UUCP -- {allegra|ihnp4}!scgvaxd!engvax!portia +>> Hughes Aircraft Co. ARPA -- portia@engvax.scg.hac.com +>> or -- portia%engvax.uucp@oberon.usc.edu +>> (213) 616-2635 +>> + +Jerry Leichter at Yale has extended this, and here is his +current recommendation: + +>> Reply-To: "Jerry Leichter" <leichter@venus.ycc.yale.edu> +>> +>> The HPLJ setup I use is derived from Portia's, with some +>> changes here and there. (I've sent mine back to her.) +>> +>> SET TERM/NOINTERACTIVE, which is a synonym for /PASSALL, is +>> WRONG. (It's also obsolete, and no longer appears in +>> current documentation.) The problem with doing that is that +>> it disables XON/XOFF handling. The Laserjet uses XON/XOFF +>> signaling; I don't know to what extent it might happen +>> during normal operation, but it will certainly XOFF the host +>> if, for example, it runs out of paper. If the line is set +>> /NOINTERACTIVE, you can lose characters. With XON/XOFF, I +>> am running my Laserjet at 19.2KB, rather than 9600. The +>> speedup is minor, but it IS there. I suspect the printer +>> WILL send XOFF's at this speed on a fairly regular basis, +>> since it's faster than the printer can actually print! +>> +>> The setup I use is: +>> +>> $ define/system SYS$LASERJET CSA0: +>> $ set terminal SYS$LASERJET/perm/nobroadcast/notypeahead/nowrap - +>> /speed=9600/width=80/page=0/device_type=unknown +>> $ set device /spooled=(SYS$PRINT,SYS$SYSDEVICE:) SYS$LASERJET +>> $ initialize/queue/start/lib=laserjetlib/separate=(reset=reset) - +>> /on=SYS$LASERJET/default=(flag,form=portrait) SYS$PRINT +>> $ define/form/stock=default portrait 1 /desc="Portrait Courier" - +>> /setup=(portrait) /length=60/wid=80/margin=(bottom=0)/wrap/notrunc +>> $ define/form/stock=default landscape 2 /desc="Landscape"/setup=(landscape) - +>> /length=45/wid=132/margin=(bottom=0)/wrap/notrunc +>> $ define/form/stock=default compressed 3 /desc="Compressed Portrait" - +>> /setup=(compressed) /length=80/wid=120/margin=(bottom=0) - +>> /wrap/notrunc +>> $ define/form/stock=default clandscape 4 /desc="Compressed Landscape" - +>> /setup=(clandscape) - +>> /length=64/wid=176/margin=(bottom=0)/wrap/notrunc +>> +>> (This is on a MicroVAX, with the printer connected to the +>> console port. The printer has an additional font cartridge, +>> which contains the font used by the CLANDSCAPE form. +>> /speed=9600 on the set terminal command is wrong (I actually +>> run at 19200) but irrelevent since the port involved doesn't +>> have a software-settable speed anyway. There are a set of +>> forms definitions to go with this; they require some editing +>> to mail because of embedded control characters, but I can +>> send them to anyone who wants them.) +>> +>> I print both normal text files and DVI files with this +>> printer; the only thing you MUST do is include /PASSALL on +>> the PRINT command for a DVI file. (Note: The use of the +>> same qualifier, /PASSALL, on both SET TERM and PRINT is +>> unfortunate, as they mean different things. SET +>> TERM/PASSALL is obsolete and should not be used. +>> PRINT/PASSALL is very much alive and needed here. +>> + +To save me some writing, I'm including below the verbatim +change log history between 22-Jun-87 (Newsletter #9) and +now. + +[14-Aug-87] {Thanks to Matthias Moritz (U608017@NHYKUN11.EARN) + for Atari support additions} + Merged in support for the Atari 520ST+ using the + Mark Williams C Compiler. makefile.ast should + build it. Since this involves changes in many + routines, I took the opportunity to introduce a + few other changes as well, and incremented the + version number of dvi*.c from 2.07 to 2.08. The + new versions should be functionally identical to + the previous ones for virtually everyone. + + The Mark Williams compiler has some limitations, + and could not handle long macro definitions, in + particular DEBUG_OPEN and FONTLIST. I have + therefore made DEBUG_OPEN() expand to dbgopen(), + where the latter is defined at the end of + dviinit.h; this does not follow my standard + practice of one function per file. FONTLIST was + simply removed, and the two instances of its use + were replaced by its definition. There are about + 40 instances in the driver source code of macros + continued over multiple lines. They are written + that way to prevent long lines in the source code + (80 is the absolute limit), which is an even more + serious barrier to portability. + + The default stacksize on the Atari is often too + small; for the time being, main programs have + been set to declare a larger stack. On PC DOS + (which Atari GEMDOS resembles), the Microsoft + EXEMOD utility can be used to change the + stacksize of an executable program without + requiring code modification. I don't know + whether there is something similar on the Atari. + + I removed the OS_xxxx-dependent conditional code + in dvi*.c for output file extension selection, by + introduction of a new variable, DVIPREFIX, in + machdefs.h. This is prepended to the default + file extension, which is now always identical to + the letters following dvi in the dvi*.c files. + On systems which do not support long file + extensions, it will be a null string; otherwise, + it will be "dvi-". + + In dvialw.c, a genuine BUG surfaced; PSDEF_PATH + should be #define'd to be subpath instead of + SUBPATH. Otherwise, it cannot be overridden by + an environment variable. Thanks to Matthias + Moritz for catching this one. + + An experimental version of a Canon A2 driver has + been added as dvica2.c, based on work by Pekka + Pietilainen (TFYS-PP@FINOU.BITNET), starting from + dvican.c. I have merged in his changes and + removed Unix-isms. This driver is intentionally + not included in the Makefiles. Only a few sites + have the Canon A2 printer, and once more + experience is obtained, it may replace dvican.c. + If you have such a printer, you can easily modify + the appropriate Makefile to support it, or you + can just compile and load dvica2 manually. For + debugging purposes, three additional option + switches are accepted in option.h; they will + disappear as the code settles. + + More experience with the drivers at many VAX VMS + sites has indicated that variable-length record + files for the output are probably undesirable + until DEC gets its act in gear and makes all VMS + utilities handle such files properly. I have + therefore modified the code in dviinit.h to use + the fixed-block binary format for all but + POSTSCRIPT devices (for which the output is truly + an ordinary text file); previously, this format + was only selected for IMPRESS (dviimp). + + For non-Unix operating systems, it is generally + necessary to open binary files differently than + text files, since the C-runtime libraries use + that distinction to decide how to translate Unix + line terminators. Every system so far has used + the letter "b" in the fopen() mode string to + select this mode, and every Unix system ignores + the "b", except Ultrix, which raises a run-time + error, sigh... I have therefore replaced the + mode string by RB_OPEN and WB_OPEN, and they are + set in machdefs.h. For all Unix systems they + will be "r" and "w", and for most non-Unix + systems, "rb" and "wb". + + Lines longer than 80 characters in *.c and *.h + files have been wrapped. + + The header "%!PS-Adobe-1.0" in dvialw.c has been + shortened to "%!"; the Adobe TranScript spooler + software thinks it is allowed to do page reversal + when it sees this, but dvialw output pages cannot + be reordered because fonts are defined only on + demand. The similar header in lptops.c is all + right; the pages there ARE independent. + + The sources have been run through 4.2BSD lint and + System V lint. A number of missing typecasts + have been supplied, and several unreferenced + local variables have been eliminated. lint still + produces many warnings, but the remaining ones + seem to be benign, or simply red herrings. + + lint revealed numerous problems with texidx.c + (which came from the GNU Project). I have + eliminated unused variables and functions, but + there remain some serious errors of incorrect + argument lists to sort_in_core() and + sort_offline(). I am not proposing to fix these + now, because at least 3 comprehensive indexing + packages for TeX have appeared recently, and + texidx.c may rapidly become obsolete. + + I have changed the handling of some preprocessor + symbols in several routines so as to eliminate + redefinition warnings, and any assumptions that + undefined symbols evaluate to 0. The draft ANSI + C standard REQUIRES that all undefined symbols + evaluate to 0 in preprocessor expressions, but + many compilers to do yet follow this rule (VAX + VMS C in particular). + +[15-Aug-87] {Thanks to Julian Perry (seismo!mcvax!zen.co.uk!jules)} + The code in option.h in the -o switch section + that forced page_begin[npage] <= page_end[npage] + conflicts with negative page numbers for counting + from the end. I have removed the code there, and + then in dvifile.h, before the main page loop, + inserted code to reset the page_begin[] and + page_end[] arrays to positive values (this can + only be done after page_count is known), and to + order them properly. + + +[10-Aug-87] {Thanks to Gary Beihl (beihl%bell.cad.mcc.com@mcc.com)} + In lw78.c and dvialw.c, change instances of + time(0) to time((long*)NULL). + + +[27-Jul-87] {Thanks to Charles Karney (Karney%ppc.mfenet@nmfecc.arpa)} + Here are two small changes to vaxvms.c: + + In vmsexit(), we turn on a high bit on a non-zero + status code to suppress a useless VMS message: + 150,151c150,151 + < exit((1 << 28) + 2); /* error */ + < break; /* (suppresses %NONAME-E-NOMSG) */ + --- + > exit(2); /* error */ + > break; + 457d456 + + In system(), add a test for the status code + returned by LIB$SPAWN; for the MAKE utility, this + allows recognition of errors returned from a + compilation. + + < int stat; + 463,464c462 + < return ((LIB$SPAWN(&t,0,0,0,0,0,&stat) == SS$_NORMAL) + < && ((stat & 1) > 0)) ? 0 : 127; + --- + > return (LIB$SPAWN(&t) == SS$_NORMAL) ? 0 : 127; + + +[20-Jul-87] + Updated cross-referencing awk scripts for use on + Sun OS 3.3 using standard cxref utility, replaced + old x*.awk by xref, xref1.awk, xref2.awk, and + xref3.awk, and replaced dvi.lrf and dvi.rby by + dvi.xrf. + + +[20-Jul-87] {Thanks to Eric M. Carroll (Eric.M.Carroll@uunet.uu.net)} + In dvialw.c, getlogin() can return a NULL + pointer, so we need to guard against that. + Change + + (void)fprintf(plotfp,"%%%%Creator: %s and ",getlogin()); + to + (void)fprintf(plotfp,"%%%%Creator: %s and ", + (getlogin() == (char*)NULL) ? "" : getlogin()); + + +[08-Jul-87] + Update makefile.* to reflect new dvil3p, and + remove obsolete makefile.eun (for Eunice). + + +[08-Jul-87] + Add symbol DECLN03PLUS and change SUBPATH for + Unix from /usr/lib/tex/inputs/ to + /usr/lib/tex/macros to match Washington TeX + distribution. + + +[08-Jul-87] + In gblprocs.h, add OS_VAXVMS to the list of hosts + where sprintf() is not declared (because it is in + system include files). + + +[08-Jul-87] + Change type of main() from void to int in + gblprocs.h and main.h to bring them into + conformance with the draft ANSI C Standard. + + +[08-Jul-87] + In fontfile.h, changed VMS section to allow for + the possibility that TEXFONTS is a logical name + list (thanks for John Sauter for this). + + +[08-Jul-87] {Thanks to John Sauter (Sauter@dssdev.dec.com)} + Add dvil3p.c for DEC LN03+ printer. + + +[08-Jul-87] + In dvil75.c in prtbmap(), change OUTC('-') to + OUTS("-\n") so as to avoid long output lines. + +------- |