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Windows-only printers

I would hope none of these ancient printers are still functional ( see The pnm2ppa project team if you do have one)

The original ppa converter is still at Tim Norman's PPA page (as of , anyway).

Did anyone ever port this elswhere? I do not know..

From: Warren Young <tangent@mail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
Subject: Re: unix compatible printers
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 19:35:28 -0700
Message-ID: <38224270.F736CF1E@mail.com> 

Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:
> 
> 91subaru@my-deja.com opined (on Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 05:18:24PM +0000):
> | Ghostscript has support for many printers that are concidered to be
> | windows only.
> 
> Interesting.  What are some HP Windows-only printers that could be used?

Probably all of them.  There's a program out there called pbm2ppa --
Ghostscript can output PBM files, and HP's WinPrinters apparently use a
format called PPA.  HP wouldn't give out the specs to this, but a
self-described protocol hacker figured the format out and wrote
pbm2ppa.  You can get it at http://www.httptech.com/ppa/

I have no idea if it's compatible with SCO unixes, but it works fine on
Linux.  If it's at all incompatible, fixes should be easy.
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= ICBM Address: 36.8274040N, 108.0204086W, | Today it is not working.
=               alt. 1714m                 |   Windows is like that.

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