Date:	Sat, 29 Jan 94 01:36:47 JST
From:	Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
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.

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