From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 4 08:22:59 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA01898 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 08:22:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA01892 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 08:22:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 0zxCly-0006Q8-00; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 16:22:30 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id QAA03426; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 16:22:22 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA10608; Mon, 4 Jan 99 16:22:20 GMT Message-Id: <3690EAB6.9AFECD6D@uk.radan.com> Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 16:22:14 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas David Rivers Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing question (not really freebsd specific) References: <199901041548.KAA02852@lakes.dignus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > I have some output (from a mainframe) which is 132 columns > wide (just plain text.) > > I thought I had heard of some utilities that would take > this wide text and format it nicely with postscript (using > a smaller font) to print on 8-1/2 by 11" paper. > > That is; does anyone know of something that will take this > wide text output - produce a postscript file; which I could > then run through ghostscript to print on my HP Deskjet? > There is a program called txt2ps. I'm not sure if it's in the ports, if not I'm sure I have the source somewhere. I'll check when I get home > - Thanks - > - Dave Rivers - > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath, Avon, England. Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message