/opt/FirstScanII/bin/firstscanii. There is also an ocr
program /usr/socrates/bin/xsocrates. The documentation
for the ocr program can be found on jaguar in
/usr/socrates/doc/manual.txt.
For an excellent explaination of how to use the scanner .
/opt/NeWSprint/bin/balancetool, this is a
wysiwyg interface, some people find this program core dumps when they
try and use it. The other interface is lp this also needs to be run on
thud. The printer is called CL, so I guess a command like
$ lp -d CL file
should do the trick, read the lp manual page, yes on thud. I am told the printer accepts sun raster and postscript files. There is a manual for the printer. If the printer is out of paper, don't ask me.
/cs/research/mice/speedy/common.
There is even an email list and bulletin board ucl-mice-bin, if you
want to be informed of updates. To join the mailing list send mail to
ucl-mice-bin-request.
Once a floppy is inserted it seems necessary to notify the Volume Manager that a floppy has been inserted using volcheck(1).
If the floppy is a dos format floppy then it will be mounted as /floppy/{Volume name}, if the floppy has no label it will be mounted as /floppy/unnamed_floppy. If the floppy is dos format then all the standard *UNIX* tools such as cp(1) will work.
If the floppy is not a dos format floppy then it will appears under /vol as /vol/dev/aliases/floppy0, /vol/dev/diskette0/unlabeled, /vol/dev/rdiskette0/unlabeled, /vol/dsk/unnamed_floppy and /vol/rdsk/unnamed_floppy.
Use eject(1) to get the floppy back.
Try
This will be old news for many of you, but recently it has become apparent
that some people are still using the "dvi2ps" program to produce PostScript
form their latex output. This program has a serious flaw in that it
produces PostScript code which has a "memory leak". The result of this is
that when printing a large document the printer can run out of memory,
making it reboot and restart the same job. This leads to the printer
producing multiple copies of the same incomplete job until somebody notices.
The good news however is that the program "dvips" is a replacement for
"dvi2ps" which does not have the same problem. The slight snag is that the
usage is slightly different so you may have to modify any scripts you use
to process your documents, or you may just have to modify your habits if
you usually call dvi2ps manually.
In particular you should note that by default dvi2ps sends the PostScript
code to standard output, whereas dvips sends it straight to the printer
in the basement (pscb). This can lead to you printing (and using up your
hard-earned printer quota) without realising it. So be warned!
You can make dvips send its PostScript to standard output by using the
"filter" option -f so that you can then use an alternative printer or pipe
the PostScript through another program, for example:
Barry.
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I'm told there are circumstances under which dvips does not work and
dvi2ps should be used. (Atanu).
Quick instructions...
M-x run-gofer will give you an interpretter
Or just find some source, blah.gs, edit it, and type \C-c \C-c, and
off it goes.
;;; Use:
This is installed as goferc
stuart
/cs/research/mice/speedy/common/sun4/bin/mcvert or
copy the file to ISD and run ~ucacata/bin/xbin.
DVI to POSTSCRIPT
To: staff@cs.ucl.ac.uk
cc: sg=fyi@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Subject: Use of dvi2ps program
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 94 10:48:10 +0100
Message-ID: <16416.780140890@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
From: Barry Stein
% dvips -f file.dvi | lpr -Ppsc2
In the near future, we would like to remove dvi2ps, so please familiarise
yourself with dvips if you haven't already done so. Mail me if you have
any probelms.
Barry Stein, Systems Group, Ext. 3661, 7280 or 3685.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
gofer emacs mode
To: ucl-mice-bin@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Subject: using gofer from emacs
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 95 13:50:35 +0100
Message-ID: <1450.796999835@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
From: Stuart Clayman
;;; In .emacs put
;;;
;;; (autoload 'gofer-mode "gofer" "Go into gofer mode" t)
;;; (autoload 'run-gofer "gofer" "Run gofer as inferior process" t)
;;; (autoload 'gofer-project "gofer" "Go into a gofer project" t)
;;;
;;; (set-variable 'auto-mode-alist
;;; (append '(
;;; ("\\.gs$" . gofer-mode) ;; gofer source
;;; ("\\.gp$" . gofer-project) ;; gofer project files
;;; ) auto-mode-alist))
;;;
;;; All gofer source files should end in .gs
;;; All gofer project files should end in .gp
;;;
;;; In gofer source files
;;; ESC \C-x
;;; \C-c \C-c
;;; \C-c l loads the current file
;;;
;;; \C-u ESC \C-x
;;; \C-u \C-c \C-c
;;; \C-u \C-c l loads the current file and does a cd first
;;;
;;; \C-c a adds the current file
;;; \C-u \C-c a adds the current file and does a cd first
;;; \C-c r reloads the current file
;;;
;;;
;;; In gofer project files
;;; ESC \C-x
;;; \C-c \C-c
;;; \C-c p loads the project file
;;; \C-u ESC \C-x
;;; \C-u \C-c \C-c
;;; \C-u \C-c p loads the project file and does a cd first
;;;
;;; The duplication of ESC \C-x, \C-c \C-c, and \C-c l is for
;;; historical reasons.
gofer to C
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