Subject: Re: VT340 Stupidity
To: NetBSD Bob <nbsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/20/2001 16:55:37
On June 20, NetBSD Bob wrote:
> Hmmm, now that has some potential.  In the V6 code are drivers for
> 4014's to do full page nroff and troff graphics output.
> 
> Thinking out loud, it might be interesting IFF say groff or TeX
> output could be handled in 4014 mode on the VAX.  Groff seems to
> have lost the troff 4014 capability.
> 
> I do a lot of troff/TeX stuff, and it would be one-upsmanship kooool
> if a VT340 could handle the output directly, graphically, rather than
> xdvi or such.
> 
> Hmmm.... I better browse the V6 tree again......(:+}}...
> 
> ....
> 
> I just did, and a thing called tk.c and another called tcat.c
> drive nroff or troff cat output to a 4014 mode screen.
> 
> Time to see if I can break a VT340.....

  Hmm...that sounds cool.  I'll bet it wouldn't be too difficult to do
a DVI viewer for 4014 mode.  That would be quite useful.

         -Dave McGuire