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From: samurai@cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: PS to EPS
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.180503.5145@cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 25 Jun 91 18:05:03 GMT
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In article <1780@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
>In article <1991Jun21.160038.25837@cs.mcgill.ca>
>	samurai@cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK) writes:
>>What the hell got up your butt today? If you have a point, make it.
>
>Your code DOESN'T WORK!  How much plainer do you want?

You lie. It works for me. It has worked for others that have said it
was "extremely useful" for them, out there in Netland. 

>>I did was implement the instructions that they gave.

>Actually, you didn't, but that's neither here nor there.

You lie again.

>Don't cry on my shoulder when you get complaints that your
>program doesn't work for PostScript produced by something other
>than a NeXT.

If it does not work for them, then I would love to hear constructive 
criticism so I can fix and improve it. I do not need unsupported ranting
from some insecure blowhard that is trying to show the whole net just
how much he knows about everything. Which seems to be nothing. Before
you say anything more do this:

a) compile the code I posted.
b) take ANY conforming postscript file
c) run it through the executable
d) see if you can include it in TeX or WriteNow.
e) see if the results come out on your Laser Printer.

ALL OF THE ABOVE have worked for the NeXT, for the NeXTprinter and
for the Apple LaserWriter.

I have not claimed anything more than that. I have not claimed
perfection. I have not claimed flawlessness. It is a dirty hack, to do 
a quick and dirty job. And I repeat myself: IF YOU
HAVE ANYTHING BETTER, MAIL ME A COPY. If you don't, shut up.

- db