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<barr@triples.Math.McGill.CA> writes:

>Tony Safina wants to know the difference.  Perhaps on a 9 pin dot matrix
>printer, there is no advantage to using TeX and such a printer is
>dreadfully slow for decent output.   On the other hand..., I just printed
>out for my wife on my HPLJ IIP a WP5.1 document and I was frankly
>astonished by the poor appearance it made compared with any TeX
>document.  It could have typed on any typewriter with a bold key
>(if such exists), while the TeX documents look like something produced
>by a printer with somewhat low res fonts.

	`Sounds worth trying out.  My question now is how do you get a TeX
file to actually start to print.  I downloaded DosTex and Sb38TeX via ftp.  I
also downloaded a ready to print TeX document called "Zen and the Art of the
Internet."  I have a PB8810 Packard Bell pc and a Star Micronics NX-1000 9-
pin dot matrix printer.  I have the DosTex program installed correctly (I
installed it from 6 floppy disks and the appropriate sub-directories were
created automatically as the program installed).  What do I do next?

If I were just printing a plain ascii document, my print command could be
as simple as:  type zen-art.doc > prn
What is the simplest command I can issue to get my TeX file to print on the
above-referenced equipment?

Thanks for any ideas you may have.


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