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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> > I should learn to compile it for DOS so I can print pbm files to
> > the Windows-only deskjet with pbmtoppa.  Or maybe the guy who sent
> > me the pieces of it has the others.
>
> Curveball: Netpbm needs perl to configure. I recommend that you get
> the binaries from a site.
>
> Check if the binaries here run on DOS:
> http://tutornet.ru/TEX/Soft/MiKTeX/UTIL/NETPBM/GNU/bin/

This appears to be netpbm version 10.6 (2003) and contains pbmtolj and 
ppmtolj and pbmtoepson but not pbmtoescp2.  I backed up a few links and 
discovered that it is unfortunately for Win95 and WinNT.  You can download 
single .exe files or all the bin files in a large zip file.  Another file 
of lib files.

> Alternatively:
> http://programming.ccp14.ac.uk/ftp-mirror/programming/djgpp/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/

> ^^^^ The files that start with npbm and end with b.zip are netpbm binaries.
> I'm not sure what npbmlxb.zip is.

They have version 9.8 from 2000 and 9.16 from 2001, and I hope djgpp is 
really for DOS.

The current maintainer took over some time since 1999 and has been adding 
anything p*m-related so other things than pbmtoescp2 may be lacking but 
this is an excellent link to have.  Many thanks.

We just proved that the 600 series deskjets will print black when they 
have colored ink but no black ink (it comes out blank) but will NOT print 
black when they have black ink but no colored ink.  I am collecting the 
original deskjet 500 and 520, which does only black and has hardware 
control of number of columns, etc., and even has some useful info in the 
manual.  Later manuals say to format with your software.  Some of the 500 
series (560C) will also print color - maybe you switch cartridges to do 
so?.