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From: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: WYSIWYG flamage (was Re: what i
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Date: 8 Aug 89 11:43:04 GMT
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Reply-To: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
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In article <77900017@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
|If you want to have "a text stream I can ftp to my friends", then you
|should think about postscript.  Postscript makes a great archival
|medium, as long as you treat the postscript file like a piece of
|immutable preprinted paper.  Why not mail that friend a postscript
|master, and he can print it out on most of the laser printers in the
|country.

You are dreaming if you think most of the laser printers are
PostScript.  Do you know how many LaserJets and--for that matter--
LN03's and 6670's are out there?  OK, I'm talking through my hat,
too, but I'd be *very* surprised if I'm wrong . . .
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