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diff --git a/dviware/beebe/updates/00mail.5 b/dviware/beebe/updates/00mail.5 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7ccd559366 --- /dev/null +++ b/dviware/beebe/updates/00mail.5 @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +26-Feb-87 13:46:28-MST,1632;000000000000 +Mail-From: BEEBE created at 26-Feb-87 13:46:24 +Date: Thu 26 Feb 87 13:46:24-MST +From: "Nelson H.F. Beebe" <Beebe@UTAH-SCIENCE.ARPA> +Subject: DVI family update #5 +To: $90%dhdurz1.bitnet@WISCVM.WISC.EDU, austins%ucbcmsa.edu@UTAH-CS.ARPA, + cel@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU, crawford-j%ohio-state.arpa@UTAH-CS.ARPA, + crm8701%tamvenus.bitnet@WISCVM.WISC.EDU, + david%ci-dandelion.uucp@EDDIE.MIT.EDU, + gaspard%hroeur5.bitnet@WISCVM.WISC.EDU, + james%vaxe.coe.northeastern.edu@UTAH-CS.ARPA, + lamy%ai.toronto.edu@RELAY.CS.NET, mpc91b%dgogwd01.bitnet@WISCVM.WISC.EDU, + rjones%uwovax.bitnet@WISCVM.WISC.EDU, rs%gnome.cs.cmu.edu@UTAH-CS.ARPA, + stone%ruthep.rutgers.edu@RUTGERS.RUTGERS.EDU, + system%uvphys.bitnet@WISCVM.WISC.EDU, thobe@EE.UCLA.EDU, + x854%ddagsi3.bitnet@WISCVM.WISC.EDU, zeffi%finabo.bitnet@WISCVM.WISC.EDU +cc: BEEBE@UTAH-SCIENCE.ARPA +X-US-Mail: "Center for Scientific Computation, South Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112" +X-Telephone: (801) 581-5254 +Message-ID: <12282197588.22.BEEBE@UTAH-SCIENCE.ARPA> + +In dispchar.h, change the line + + rightones[HOST_WORD_SIZE - 1 - bits_to_next] & +to + rightones[bits_to_next] & + +This code is not active for non 32-bit machines, or the IBM +PC, and the local 32-bit Unix machines running the driver +family have been using only the laser printer members, so +the bug was not caught until we actually tried DVIPRX output +under VAX VMS. The effect it has is that large vertical +white streaks appear in the output bitmap; dispchar() is +used by all the low-resolution dot matrix printers. +------- |