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
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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
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Robert K. Shull
University of Oklahoma, Engineering Computer Network
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