Date: Sat, 29 Jan 94 01:36:47 JST From: Stephen Turnbull To: h_ellenberger AT p14 DOT lemas DOT chg DOT imp DOT com Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Subject: Printing TEX files on MsDos PC There are a number of possible solutions. The most roundabout that I can think of is "get ghostscript, use dvips, and then gs the .ps file". That seems a bit much, but getting Ghostscript is worth the effort anyway. Second, there are a bunch of Japanese TeXs around, and all of them have a "dviprt" program or something like that. ftp.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp:/pub/DOS-EXTENDERS/386/ASCII-TeX/drivers or something like that (don't use the NTT version, the fonts are different). The printer drivers don't care if you don't speak Japanese :-). Both of these solutions will work with the most basic LaserJet. Finally, there is a program "dvilj" which I just noticed in the linux distribution somewhere. wuarchive.wustl.edu:/systems/linux/tex, I would guess. I suppose this program would work on a LJ one. You might have to port it to DJGPP, but that can't be very hard, since it shouldn't be doing anything weird with interrupts, shells, multiple threads, etc. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Stephen Turnbull | | University of Tsukuba, Institute of Socio-Economic Planning | | Tennodai 1-chome 1--1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305 JAPAN | | Phone: +81 (298) 53-5091 Fax: +81 (298) 55-3849 | | Email: turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp | | | | Founder and CEO, Skinny Boy Associates | | Mechanism Design and Social Engineering | | REAL solutions to REAL problems of REAL people in REAL time! REALLY. | | Phone: +81 (298) 56-2703 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+