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From: nelson@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (J. Nelson Howell)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: documentation for MicroEmacs 3.10
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Date: 23 Jul 90 21:09:51 GMT
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In article <1990Jul21.191234.26350@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jsivier@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jonathon Sivier ) writes:
>
>   I am trying to get MicroEmacs 3.10 working on various machines.  Included
>with the source are 2 files which are the documentation in different forms.
>One is emacs.txt which is just a straight ASCII file with the lines and pages
>padded with spaces and empty lines.  This might print out OK but if it doesn't
>I'll have many, many pages of garbage.  The other file is emacs.mss, this
>appears to be the input to some form of word processor or text formatter.  Does
>anyone know what this file is for and if so can I produce a postscript file
>from it.


The documentation for MicroEMACS was written using FinalWord.  I don't
know for sure, but I believe there is a PostScript driver out there
somewhere for this package.  The .TXT file should be a processed (to ASCII)
version of the .MSS file.



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