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From: woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: ruler.ps - an inch/point ruler of your very own
Summary: RTM Carfully
Message-ID: <17690@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 18 Jan 90 19:47:27 GMT
References: <21772@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1990Jan14.180821.18711@trigraph.uucp>, <kZgrwXq00VswQCglNy@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Plano, TX
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In article <kZgrwXq00VswQCglNy@andrew.cmu.edu>, jaap+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jaap Akkerhuis) writes:
> This discussion is getting really silly.
> 
> Excerpts from netnews.comp.lang.postscript: 16-Jan-90 Re: ruler.ps - an
> inch/poin.. Woodrow Baker@rpp386.cac (1309)
> 
> > I'm curious.  What is the measurement name for the metric system, and
> > what measure does it use. 
> 
> 
> The metric system has as measurement name meter and deriverates, like
> centimeter. It is exactly 1 meter long.

I know that.  PLEASE read messages in context.  I was asking what the name
for the metric system of "points" was.  We call them points, and measure them
in 1/100 ths of an inch.  What is the metric equivelent name, and is the measure
given in mm, cm, dm, microns or just what.
You are the second person to not read what was asked for, and make a
comment.  One individual did read the message and understood it, out of
the 3 people who have responded to this, it appears that this individual
was the only one who read the message carefully.