Subject: vtprint 1.22 released
From: [email-masked] (Garrett D'Amore)
Date: 6 Feb 1994 22:20:40 +0200
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

Hello!  This is an official release announcement for vtprint 1.22.  
This program is used to print ASCII (or PostScript, but not binary)
files from a remote host to a local printer (across, say, a modem
connection).  This is useful for people who compute at home but do a lot
of their work on a computer at work or school.

The distribution file is in GNU-zip format and is located at netcom.com
in /pub/garrett (via anonymous ftp).  The actual file is:

	vtprint-1.22.tar.gz

The archive includes source and documentation, but no binaries.  (Any
system with an ANSI conformant compiler should work -- and many with
non-ANSI conformant compilers can compile the source anyway! :^)

If you have been using a previous version of vtprint, please upgrade, as
this version fixes several bugs.  A few features have been added also.
As I am back in classes, I don't expect to release another version
anytime soon unless a significant bug is discovered.

Here is an excerpt from the CHANGES file:

>From 1.21 to 1.22	(January 30, 1994)

	Fixed:		Missing signal handling code
	Fixed:		Bug in EOF detection, credit to Ed Doolittle
			([email-masked]) for spotting the bug
	Fixed:		Compile errors on many non-ANSI/POSIX systems
	Fixed:		Possible memory leak in vtprtoff
	Fixed:		Bug in formfeeds, credit to Ed Doolittle
			([email-masked]) for the fix
	Fixed:		Hopefully, an error in handling EOF condition
	Fixed:		Potential filename globbing errors in vtprtoff
	Fixed:		Typos in the man pages, credit to Mike Long
			([email-masked]) for spotting them
	Added:		Support for systems using a path seperator other
			than slash or backslash -- now it's a Makefile
			variable
	Added:		Makefile support for systems that have on_exit()
			instead of atexit() -- e.g. SunOS 4.1.x
	Added:		Support for normal user install with
			"userinstall" Makefile target
	Added:		File "COMPAT", for compatiblity information
	Changed:	All code now conforms to POSIX.1 specifications
	Changed:	General code cleanup, support for "lint" checking
			of source fixed

The rest of the file is in the source archive.  Incidentally, here is
the database file for the Linux Software Map:

Begin2
Title        = vtprint
Version      = 1.22
Desc1        = A package for seamless printing from a remote host to
Desc2        = a printer attached to a local VT100,VT220, or ANSI 
Desc3        = terminal.  Source and docs (man pgs) are included. 
Desc4        = Can be used as direct replacement for lpr where lpd
Desc5        = doesn't service the local terminal.
Author       = Garrett D'Amore
AuthorEmail  = [email-masked]
Maintainer   = Garrett D'Amore
MaintEmail   = [email-masked]
Site1        = netcom.com
Path1        = /pub/garrett
File1        = vtprint-1.22.tar.gz
FileSize1    = 28201
Required1    = gcc, vt100/vt220/ansi terminal or emulator (needs to
Required2    = support hard copy escape sequences), groff req'd if 
Required3    = you want to reformat the man pages
CopyPolicy1  = Freely redist/usable/modifiable, just leave my copyright
CopyPolicy2  = notices intact. (Similiar to BSD copyright.)
Keywords     = vtprint terminal print
Comment1     = Not all vt100/vt220/ansi terminals support the correct
Comment2     = escape sequences properly.  Try out yours and let me
Comment3     = know whether it works or not!
Entered      = 05FEB94
EnteredBy    = Garrett D'Amore
CheckedEmail = [email-masked]
End

Hope you like the program!

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Garrett D'Amore                 |     [email-masked]
Network Programmer/Analyst      |     Available for hire !!
SDSU Computer Science Major     |     Go Aztecs!
=================================================================

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