27 Jul
2020
27 Jul
'20
5:07 p.m.
Jaap Akkerhuis <jaapna(a)xs4all.nl> writes:
I don't know when it was born. It came from the Documentors Work
Bench (DWB). The DWB used various to create the appropriate font
tables using the target postscript interpreter the fonts were used.
As far as I know, dpost and these tools were created by Rich Drechsler.
jaap
I don't know when it was born either, but I do know that there was a
port of it to a Vax running System V at 6200 Broad Street where I worked
in the late 90s. It is highly likely it was actually a port of DWB
running on the Vax, but I could not tell you for sure. We had to use it
to get working output for one of the printers we had.
--
Brad Spencer - brad(a)anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org
When was dpost born?
N.
Eighth Edition, as part of ditroff. It wouldn't help on 2.11BSD anyway,
as dpost reads the ascii intermediate form from ditroff, not the C/A/T
typesetter codes from original troff.