Materiel and graft 4401

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and for some additional drift ... from the TeX Users Group web site

an old "TUGboat" v6n2 (from 1985) https:--www.tug.org-TUGboat-Articles-tb06-2-tb12site.pdf has a report on slac site report on use with vm-cms ... which mentions

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The VM-CMS port of is a combination of efforts of many people. WEB change files for preliminary versions of TjjX were brought to the TUG meeting in August 1983 and given to David Fuchs who combined them into a definitive version on the VM system at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. The original change files were supplied by Roger Chaffee of SLAC (now at Metaphor), Craig Platt of the University of Manitoba, and Peter Sih of IBM Palo Alto Scientific Center. Bernd Schulze of the University of Bonn also contributed his experience from bringing up a preliminary QjX under CMS.

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The tape includes four utilities to interface 7&X to the IBM 4250 electro-erosion printer and 3800 model 3 page printer, all of which were written by Pete Sih. The first utility, DVI4250, converts a DVI file into a format edible by the 4250. You still need the CDPF device driver that comes with the 4250. The second utility, DVI38PP does the current-release software has an interface to accept the 3800 data stream. The third utility, PXLCVT, converts the old METAFONT's PXL fonts into 4250 format and 3800 format. The fourth utility, FONTPL, makes W-type property-list (PL) files from IBM font files of filetype FONT4250 and FONT38PP.

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