> I want to use my daisy wheel printer to create letters and memos and
> similar (rather simple) texts. What can I use to write the text?
I worked on a v7 system that had a troff driver for iirc Diablo 630
printers, but I don't see it in stock v7. For groff, you'd probably
hunt up a dvi-to-630
I use `groff` for some tasks like that. If it's a simple document I'll only
ever do once, I often just open it with a text editor and set the editor to
display a bar on the 76th column, and manually hit return :)
There are probably Markdown preprocessors that either produce fixed width
text or inp
Depends on the OS, and the model of the printer, and what its interface is.
If it's a printer that DEC software understands, the WPS family of word
processing software would be a nice option. There's WPS-8, WPS-PLUS for RSTS,
various others probably as well.
paul
> On Aug 10, 2020, at
Hi,
I want to use my daisy wheel printer to create letters and memos and
similar (rather simple) texts.
What can I use to write the text?
I think "special effects" with daisy wheel printers are "bold" and
"underline" parts. And "double stroke" (if that's the correct word, I
mean a space cha
