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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!agate!usenet From: garrett@athena.sdsu.edu (Garrett D'Amore) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.announce Subject: [ANN] vtprint-2.0 released! Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc Date: 23 Jun 1994 07:01:55 -0700 Organization: San Diego State University, College of Sciences Lines: 61 Sender: cgd@agate.berkeley.edu Approved: 386bsd-announce-request@agate.berkeley.edu Message-ID: <2u3ctp$glu.co3a@pandora.sdsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: agate.berkeley.edu Summary: vtprint 2.0 release announcement Keywords: terminal print ANNOUNCING THE OFFICIAL RELEASE OF VTPRINT 2.0! =============================================== June 19, 1994 Finally, I have finished putting the last touches on the vtprint-2.0 package. It is now ready for general consumption. If you are using an earlier version of vtprint, I strongly recommend you to upgrade now! vtprint 2.0 is a complete rewrite from the 1.x versions. vtprint is a program that allows users to print from a remote UNIX host to a printer attached to their local terminal or emulator, which makes it great for printing files at home, etc. (It only does text files, though.) vtprint is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.sdsu.edu in the /pub/vtprint directory. It is also available by uuencoded e-mail by sending a request to the author at <garrett@sciences.sdsu.edu>. NOTE THAT FTP.NETCOM.COM IS NO LONGER THE OFFICIAL SITE FOR VTPRINT -- the files stored there are likely to old -- use ftp.sdsu.edu instead! vtprint should be fully portable to any modern UNIX. The only "difficult" things are likely to be a need for an ANSI C compiler and GNU gzip. (gzip is used to decompress the package, and is available from prep.ai.mit.edu via anonymous ftp in the /pub/gnu directory.) Attached below is the WHATSNEW file for those of you already using vtprint: =======> cut here <======== What's new in vtprint 2.0 from 1.x? vtprint-2.0 represents a *complete* rewrite of vtprint. I decided to change somewhat the design philosophy, deeming portability to non-UNIX systems to be really worthless. Hence, this is probably only compilable on UNIX or UNIX-clone systems. Also, I moved to the "getopt()" facility which simplified some of the option parsing code. Here's a list of some of the "user-visible" additions to vtprint: 1) support for any *terminal* with printer control codes via an external library file (see vtprintcap(5).) 2) support for CR/LF handling directly 3) support for output to *any* device file via the command line. 4) support for "session defaults" via an environmental variable which can hold command-line options. 5) optional "binary" mode, overriding CR/LF translations (can only be used on terminal devices). 6) probably other things I can't think of now. ================================================================= Garrett D'Amore | garrett@sciences.sdsu.edu Student Programmer/Analyst | SDSU College of Sciences SDSU Computer Science Major | Physics Bldg., Room 238 =================================================================