Quality text output cheap

[Larry Campbell]

[This is a reposting, since it appears that the original never made
 it out, for completely unknown reasons.  Apologies if in fact this is
 a duplicate for some people.]

This is a followup to Message-ID: <189 at maynard.UUCP>, posted to
net.text and net.wanted.sources, in which I asked for "quality text
output cheap".

I received replies from the following people (sorry if I've missed
anyone, perhaps uucp ate your mail):

	cybvax0!foxvax5!spec2 (W.R. Brown (Warren))
	seismo!ut-sally!nbires!rcd (Dick Dunn)
	cmcl2!rna!dan (Dan Ts'o)
	seismo!noao!terak!suze (Suzanne Barnett)
	mirror!rs (Rich Salz)
	lasspvax.tn.cornell.edu:ihnp4!vax135!cornell!olson (Todd Olson)
	genrad!ihnp4!uiucdcs!uxa.CSO.UIUC.EDU!uxe.CSO.UIUC.EDU!koenker
	Charlie C. Kim <genrad!packard!topaz!columbia!cucca!cck>
	genrad!seismo!munnari!elecvax.oz!stephenf

Most people suggested `ptroff' or `Transcript' from Adobe Systems.
These sounded nice, except that I wrote misleadingly in my note when
I said "probably PostScript", since we have an HP LaserJet and not
an Apple LaserWriter.  (I was just being pessimistic and assuming
we'd need to go out and buy a LaserWriter).

Well, it turns out that a Cambridge (Mass.) company called Textware has
a product called `tplus' that fills the bill nicely.  It's a port of
the AT&T Documenter's Workbench along with drivers for the HP LaserJet
and LaserJet+.  We're a beta test site now for the Venix/86 port, and
so far (after two days of use) it seems to work quite well.

Thanks again for all the responses!

[PS - as of this reposting, we've been using tplus for a month, and it's
 performed flawlessly.  I recommend it.]
-- 
Larry Campbell                                 The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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