[Coco] dw_espon notes: mroff

[Willard Goosey]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 11:50:40PM -0400, Aaron Wolfe wrote:

> I am not sure how real Epsons work, as it's been some 20 years since I've
> used one.  The emulation comes solely from the manual.

Apparently my IBM proprinter is a reboxed Epson?  I dunno.  Anyway I
don't have a ribbon for it right now. :-(  So I can't test it either.

> I would not be surprised if they handled backspace by just moving the head
> back, and so then if you print a second time things become "bold" sort of.
> But no way to verify that here.

I would actually be surprised.  That's old school char-by-char
printing-terminal behaviour and I doubt the "give me a line to think
about and print all at once" epson worked that way.

If you have a linux box you can poke around in you'll find things like
colcrt(1) for fixing nroff's similar output.  Heck it might even be
lurking in OSX. 

Willard 
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