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Help needed with vgrind/tgrind and Postscript

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From: Stuart Hungerford
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1990 03:54
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I'm not a troff or TeX expert but I'm trying to use either tgrind or 
vgrind to format some nice program listings.  All this is happening
under SunOS 4.0.3 and with an Apple Laserwriter.

When I used vgrind/troff/pscat and specified that it should use the
Courier font family, the output was acceptable, EXCEPT for this type
of text (C program source actually):

    /*-----------------------------------------------*/
    /* This is a comment.                            */
    /*-----------------------------------------------*/

When printed this text had the right hand "*/" characters at different
columns.  Now I thought Courier was a mono-spaced font, obviously I
am missing some thing here!

I've also tried tgrind/TeX/dvialw and it produces very nice output
but is there some way I can force it to use a mono-spaced font so the
program text lines up nicely?

Any ideas would be much appreciated.  If you can help please email
since our newsfeed is very slow.  

                Stuart Hungerford
                stuarth@csis.oz
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From: stuarth@csis.dit.csiro.au (Stuart Hungerford)
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Subject: Help needed with vgrind/tgrind and Postscript
Message-ID: <1990Jan9.035439.11676@csis.dit.csiro.au>
Date: 9 Jan 90 03:54:39 GMT
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Organization: CSIRO Div of Inf Tech
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