Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!occrsh!uokmax!rob From: rob@uokmax.UUCP (Robert K Shull) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: A/UX nroff -ms doesn't work Message-ID: <1685@uokmax.UUCP> Date: 14 Aug 88 19:02:37 GMT References: <3163@Portia.Stanford.EDU> <113@obie.UUCP> <15013@apple.Apple.COM> <712@hp4nl.nluug.nl> Reply-To: rob@uokmax.UUCP (Robert K Shull) Organization: University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK Lines: 25 In article <712@hp4nl.nluug.nl> piet@nluug.nl (Piet Beertema) writes: > > The ms macros, like not a few items still in BSD are kludgy and > obsolescent. We at Apple did not supply them because we didn't >We at Apple don't supply stuff used all over the world, >working fine in its original, recent (4.3) form. Just because it's used "all over the world" doesn't mean it's not kludgy and obsolescent. (I can see it now: Apple, why didn't you supply Cobol on my A/UX distribution? It's used all over the world and working fine in its original, recent form.) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (interesting concept in itself) Also, it doesn't work fine on some very important configurations. Namely, Adobe Transcript to a LaserWriter. We've spent the last two years telling people not to use -ms macros, use -me instead (after 20 or 30 laser pages get wasted) Robert -- Robert K. Shull University of Oklahoma, Engineering Computer Network att!occrsh!uokmax!rob CIS 73765,1254 Delphi RKSHULL sun!texsun!uokmax!rob