<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">As far as I know, Tom Ferrin wrote the original in the late 1970s - it is on the original UCSF tape as part of his UNIX graphics tools. That said, Joy may have passed it along on the BSD tapes also. It's called "vcat" and converts Wang C/A/T codes to plotter strokes on a smaller (11/12in wide IIRC) Varian (originally) and small Versatec [wet / kerosene style] plotter using the 200 bpi Hershey fonts that the CMU/MIT/Stanford XGP had used. IIRC, UCB had a large format Versatec (36"/48") and the UCB version could do N pages at a time. In the Adobe 'transcript' package is a similar program (based on Tom work) but outputs using Adobe Fonts. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">It might take some searching "foo" to find them, but Tom's program is what most of us used back in the day before the Imagen and later Apple LaserWriter - particularly after having had access to an XGP or a Xerox Dover in college ;-)</div></div><div hspace="streak-pt-mark" style="max-height:1px"><img alt="" style="width:0px;max-height:0px;overflow:hidden" src="https://mailfoogae.appspot.com/t?sender=aY2xlbWNAY2NjLmNvbQ%3D%3D&type=zerocontent&guid=7da7827c-a0c4-4e95-ad4b-5d8f1d99b427"><font color="#ffffff" size="1">ᐧ</font></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 6:10 PM David Arnold <<a href="mailto:davida@pobox.com">davida@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">> On 9 Mar 2023, at 03:30, Angelo Papenhoff <<a href="mailto:aap@papnet.eu" target="_blank">aap@papnet.eu</a>> wrote:<br>
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