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20-Apr-87 18:08:57-MST,3550;000000000000
Mail-From: BEEBE created at 20-Apr-87 18:08:49
Date: Mon 20 Apr 87 18:08:48-MST
From: "Nelson H.F. Beebe" <Beebe@SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU>
Subject: DVI family update #7 -- Version 2.07 announcement
To: beebe@SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU
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X-US-Mail: "Center for Scientific Computation, South Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112"
X-Telephone: (801) 581-5254
Message-ID: <12296138989.18.BEEBE@SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU>

I have completed today Version 2.07 of my DVI driver family,
and updated all the source directories on  SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU.
Although this version supports one new device, and  enhances
the support for another, it does not provide any substantial
change for  users,  so  sites which  have  already  received
Version 2.06 should  not feel compelled  to do an  immediate
upgrade.

The major changes are as follows:
	* support for the KCC-20 compiler on TOPS-20;
	* addition of a driver, DVIL75, for the DEC LA75
	  printer (thanks to John Sauter for this);
	* substantially enhanced BBN BitGraph driver:
		** instant keyboard response during screen
	 	   update to support rapid screen
	 	   repositioning and document skimming
		** large characters now sent as downloaded fonts
		   instead of being sent as raster bitmaps
		** zoom up and down in magnification
		** coarse and fine control of screen positioning
		** now works with both white and black backgrounds
		** character overwrite at right margin no
		   longer happens (appears to be a BitGraph
		   internal bug)
	* addition of a public-domain version of the Unix
	  Version 7 MAKE utility which supports six (yes, 6)
	  different operating systems (sources on
	  APS:<TEX.PUB.MAKE>), and Makefile's now used for
	  building the driver family on all supported machines;
	* updated, extended, and INDEXED installer's manual
	  (dvidriver.*) (95 pages)
	* dvijep (HP LaserJet Plus) now handles characters
	  too large to be sent as downloaded fonts
	* BSD 4.1 core-dump-at-exit bug fixed (the bug was
	  in BSD, NOT the drivers)

If you wish  to retrieve these  via Internet ANONYMOUS  FTP,
get the  file 00README.TXT  first; it  tells where  to  find
everything else.
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