Printing on Socrates

Printing from Pine

You can set up printing options from Pine to print to your desktop printer. At the main menu, select S for Set-up then P for Printers.
You should select: attached-to-ansi

Note: This feature only works if your telnet client supports print features.

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Downloading files to print

The easiest way to print text files is to simply download them to your workstation, then use a simple text program on your workstation to print the file. For more information about File Transferring from your Socrates account to your workstation, please see: File Transferring.

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Troff Printing

The older version of Troff, called cctroff on the older Garnet and Violet systems, has been moved to the Statistics server. You will need to contact Statistics if you want to use the older formatting function.

The original version of troff, which comes with most UNIX systems (but not Solaris), was designed for use with the now obsolete C/A/T typesetters. UC Berkeley has not had a C/A/T typesetter since 1986.

The original troff has most of the features of current versions, but it was written for a typesetter that lacked many of the capabilities of PostScript and is therefore missing them. For example, only one font family (such as Times, Palatino, or Courier) can be used in a single troff run. Stretching, shortening, and slanting characters is not possible. Spline drawing capabilities that pic and some special characters use are absent; thus pic cannot be used with it. This version does not produce PostScript directly, nor print the output.

We do not have this version of troff on our systems and only mention it for completeness.

Summary of troff families of commands

Version What it is Where installed How to call
cctroff Computer Center modification of ditroff Statistics Server troff, eqn, tbl, pic; cctroff, cceqn, cctbl, ccpic
trofflpr The current device independent troff Socrates trofflpr, eqn, tbl
xtroff Frontend to ditroff for previewing on X (source available on moby)

Version	What it is	Where installed	How to call
cctroff	Computer Center modification of ditroff	Statistics Server	troff, eqn, tbl, pic; cctroff, cceqn, cctbl, ccpic
trofflpr	The current device independent troff	Socrates	trofflpr, eqn, tbl
xtroff	Frontend to ditroff for previewing on X	(source available on moby)

For more additional information on the differences of troff usage from cctroff usage or for more information on type setting with troff see the Troff page.

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Please send comments to: calweb_consult@berkeley.edu. For additional questions, see Questions.
Last updated 23 July 1998.