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From: cmcmanis@stpeter.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: Requests from CATS for info on improvement
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Date: 13 Mar 90 20:41:30 GMT
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In article <1990Mar12.184000.25855@wam.umd.edu> (Udo K Schuermann) writes:
>How about a simple `man' command?  Maybe driven off a text file which
>could be sent to the printer to make your own hardcopy if needed.

This is the most feasible suggestion I believe. I started writing something
like it in ARexx but then got distracted. The interesting thing to note is
that now that we have the "big 3" Adobe fonts (with 1.3) of Courier, 
Helvetica, and Times Roman, it becomes very simple to generate a file
that looks good on the screen and can be easily printed on a postscript
printer, also looking good. I'm not sure if Commodore could be convinced
to release the 72, 144, and 300 dpi versions of these fonts, if so you
could also get decent output on your dot matrix printer as well. 


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