Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: PostScript Versus ASCII Message-ID: <6378@ficc.uu.net> Date: 2 Oct 89 11:29:59 GMT References: <8909301233.aa05407@huey.udel.edu> <6373@ficc.uu.net> <629@wet.UUCP> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 40 > I don't know how things are where you live, but in California if > you don't have PostScript capability "at home" you go to the > local copy shop with a diskette. Do they accept either cpio or tar-format disks or cartridges? No? Well, I'll just use my personal computer. How about 16-sector hard-format CP/M diskettes, or AmigaDOS 880K floppies? This is only an option if you have an IBM-clone (running Messydos, to boot) or a Mac in-house. > Everything's in both forms, the information's identical, but the > PostScript is much easier on the eyes. 1245(yes)P 1960(Postscript)P 128(is)P 2250(much)P 196(easier)P 1747(to)P 456(read)P 6(.)P > Rather than argue about how widespread PostScript is, why not > support software such as FSF's GhostScript that will make it > unquestionably available to the neo-Luddites? Matter of opinion. From my point of view folks who want to tie us down in the paper age are the Luddites. I have enough slaughtered trees floating around my office as it is. Hardcopy, to me, means "time to order another bloody filing cabinet". And I have a question about GhostScript. The support files and fonts in this package fall under the Copyleft. If RMS and his buddies are being consistent, that makes anything printed with GhostScript a derivitive work and subject to the Copyleft. Is this so, or is RMS making a special exception for the sake of expediency? -- Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Biz: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Fun: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' "That is not the Usenet tradition, but it's a solidly-entrenched U delusion now." -- brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)