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From: pjg
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1987 09:52

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Yesterday my laser died.  It came back to life when we changed the
roms.  I pass this along in case someone has a similar problem
(althogh somehow I doubt that will occur).  We had (have?) a
LaserWriter that was shortly followed by the Plus upgrade.  We
installed the upgrade but removed it when ptroff stopped making tbl
boxes correctly.  Yesterday the laser stopped responding and flashed
its processing light til I cycled the power.  When the self-test
flashing stopped no test page came out.  However it starting sending
bursts of nuls on the 9600 port.  Also the test led started flashing.
Our service people put the Plus upgrade back in and now it's fine.  We
have switched to ditroff and the tbl box problem is gone as well.

However, now when I run dvi2ps and it has to substitutes fonts some
chars no longer print, some print as blanks and some become some other
character.  Does this mean that I need a new version of dvi2ps?

--
Paul Graham -- University of Nevada-Reno
uucp - seismo!unrvax!pjg
internet: pjg@tahoe.UNR.EDU (MX mailing only, we're not on the internet)

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