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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: SysV3.2 doesn't know Postscipt.  So what.
Message-ID: <525@vidiot.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 90 17:41:00 GMT
References: <51@raysnec.UUCP> <75Oq02tRadot01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
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In article <75Oq02tRadot01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> dacseg@uts.amdahl.com (Scott E. Garfinkle) writes:
<From article <51@raysnec.UUCP>, by shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake):
<> 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*.
<
<Since AT&T doesn't even support DWB anymore, I can hardly fault them.  If
<you want a free typesetting package get TeX.  If you want troff, get Elan
<or a competitor.

But AT&T still supports DWB.  The 3.0 version is in Beta test at AT&T sites
now and includes PostScript support.

<So get MS Word for Unix from SCO.  I'm curious where you got DWB for your 386;
<I thought the only way to get n/troff for the 386 was from Elan, et al., who
<all include postscript drivers.  Alternatively, get vp/ix and run your favorite
<DOS package under it.  I use MS Word.

The ISC Unix package as an optional Text Processing package, which is DWB2.0.
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