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From: snoopy@sopwith (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: AFM files: of any use?
Message-ID: <1989Nov26.165136.3621@sopwith>
Date: 26 Nov 89 16:51:36 GMT
References: <134400010@cdp> <8049@cg-atla.UUCP> <12830@polya.Stanford.EDU> <627@halley.UUCP>
Reply-To: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy)
Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm
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In article <627@halley.UUCP> steve@halley.UUCP (Steve Williams) writes:

| And "Joe Consumer" has little or no need for the files.  Really, only
| developers, hackers, and the insatiatiably curious ever need them.

I believe the *roff-to-ps programs require the AFM files.  People other
than developers, hackers, and the insatiatiable curious use *roff.


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