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Problems with 4.3BSD dipress

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From: Paul Dourish
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1987 13:33
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I use ditroff to format documents for an Interpress (Xerox 8044) printer.
This has been working successfully for over a year, using the dipress post-
processor which came with Release 1 of the Interpress Toolkit from the Xerox
Systems Institute. However, I recently upgraded to 4.3BSD and want to use the
new version of dipress which came with it, but I've been having problems.
(I've actually also encountered identical problems with XSI's Interpress
Toolkit release 2.1).

Ditroff runs fine, but runing dipress produces errors like this (I've editted
them to fit in 80 columns):

(eusip)1% bin/dipress -f lib/fonts/8044 -t simple.dit > simple.ip
dipress: no interpress equivalent for troff font X0111bbbbbbbbbb;;000X0      \
   v       El      v'      v               v       '               vE1EXbbbNl\
N;bl;;b;lXbbNN;lX     XXN;';XEbbb'NX;'NXbbbXXXXXXXXXXbbbbbb'; ';lX    E;000'X\
1bbu&&ll
error encountered near line 3
dipress: no interpress equivalent for troff font b11000X0                    \
   Nv0     v0              v;1;XblvbvbElv;;v;'vlvvXXEvlllX;';X1bbb1Xb;1XbbbbX\
XXXXXXXXXbbbbbb0;:0;ll;;00'X1bb       ::vw
error encountered near line 3
bin/dipress     Memory fault - core dumped
(eusip)2%

When dipress dumps the core, it's in this state:

 _malloc(1c) from 56a
 _setFontPosition(4,d50b,d515) from 20d
 _readDeviceInitInfo() from _deviceCommand+48
 _deviceCommand(956c) from 972
 _ditroffToIpress(956c) from 1543
 _main(5,7fffea44,7fffea5c) from start+3d

Does anyone have any ideas about how I can fix this?

                                                     -- Paul.
-- 
Paul Dourish,                ARPA:  jpd%ed.eusip@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Speech Input Project,        UUCP:  ...!mcvax!ukc!eusip!jpd
University of Edinburgh,     JANET: jpd@uk.ac.ed.eusip
80, South Bridge,             
Edinburgh EH1                The opinions in this article are my own, and not
Scotland.                    those of the voices which tell me what to do.
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From: jpd@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Paul Dourish)
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Subject: Problems with 4.3BSD dipress
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Date: Wed, 5-Aug-87 09:33:23 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  5 09:33:23 1987
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Keywords: Interpress Toolkit, dipress