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From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
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Subject: Re: PS to EPS
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.033014.18062@macc.wisc.edu>
Date: 26 Jun 91 03:30:14 GMT
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In article <1991Jun25.180503.5145@cs.mcgill.ca>
samurai@cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy Brockbank) writes:

In case you've forgotten, Brockbank was incensed a few days
ago that someone commented on another person's spelling.  It
seems he thinks it's fine for him to be incensed, but not
fine for others.  He continues in that vein.

>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.

Being civil often works.  Try it, you'll like it.

>>Your code DOESN'T WORK!  How much plainer do you want?

>You lie.

To know that, you'd have to know his intention.  Perhaps
he's only mistaken.  Usually people don't get called liars
for that.  Inasmuch as Eric has helped hundreds of us
hundreds of times and in matters of fact nearly always has
reliable information, probably he would be quite willing to
admit a mistake if he made one.

>You lie again.

How dreary.

>>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.

Strikes me as a legitmate concern, all right.  But who'd
want to help a person whose basic approach is contempt?

>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.

On the last point, it's hard to imagine a person being
less correct.  On the earlier one, rant and blowhard are
the operative words, just applied to the wrong person.
Try the mirror, son.

>Before you say anything more do this:

(Says he, commandingly :-)

>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.

Someone should thank you, I think: thanks.

>And I repeat myself: IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING BETTER, MAIL ME A
>COPY.

Tried "please" lately?

>If you don't, shut up.

(He must be moonlighting at the State Department.)

<> To seek permission is to seek denial.
<> -- Steve Jobs
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