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From: shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: SysV3.2 doesn't know Postscipt!!!!! Idiots!
Summary: ... or much else in the way of printers. Alternatives.
Message-ID: <51@raysnec.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jun 90 16:09:20 GMT
References: <sean.644531308@s.ms.uky.edu>
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In article <sean.644531308@s.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>Are the AT&T people stupid, or what? Did they think no one was ever going
>to use postscript? What shortsightedness. What a *pain*.

I personally find it amazing that the typical UNIX document processing
package supports such an atypical collection of printers. Like, really,
how many of your colleagues count a a C/A/T or Imagen photo typesetter
in their installations. Yet any good DOS-based word processor from Word
Perfect, Microsoft, Lyrix, et. al. will support myriad collections of
dot-matrix, ink jet, Postscript, HP-compatible, etc. printers.

Myself, I keep nroff around to handle man pages, but for more serious
documents I have to change environments to you-know-what. Yes, Interleaf
and Frame Maker are powerful packages, but resource- and license-wise,
how many of us can afford them?