4 Jun
2015
4 Jun
'15
1:58 p.m.
Paul Koning wrote:
I've just took a look at the (Open)VMS Alpha 8.2 system in front of me and
it appears RUNOFF comes installed with the OS.
The online help says it can produce output for an LN01, LN01E or LN03.
While these are laser printers, as far as I know, they are nothing like
postscript printers. I did a quick test and the output looks to me like 8 bit
ANSI escape sequences and text.
Regards,
Peter Coghlan.
On Jun 4, 2015, at 3:53 PM, Mark Wickens <mark
at wickensonline.co.uk> wrote:
Someone (possibly me) surely can process the files with dec runoff
directly? Doesnt it support postscript output?
Not any version I have ever seen; they all produce plain lineprinter output
(with overprinting for things like underlining). You can of course take the
formatted output and run it through a simple postprocessor like pstext.
Some versions of troff can produce PostScript (current Linux or Darwin ones,
for example) so if you can do runoff->troff then you have a direct path to
PostScript. But you?re right, if someone would offer to run an actual
RUNOFF on the sources, that would be a good approach. I could do it on a
RSTS system, which might work provided the source doesn?t use VMS-specific
Runoff features.