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Date:      Wed, 5 Mar 1997 23:49:03 -0500 (EST)
From:      Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com>
To:        dkelly@hiwaay.net
Cc:        chad@anasazi.com, jmz@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: a2ps port/package 
Message-ID:  <199703060449.XAA21244@wopr.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <199703060410.WAA07798@nexgen.hiwaay.net>
References:  <9703050349.AA29120@chad.anasazi.com> <199703060410.WAA07798@nexgen.hiwaay.net>

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dkelly@hiwaay.net <dkelly@hiwaay.net> wrote:

 > Actually, I like it the way it is, it retains the "tool" nature of Unix 
 > where one builds on other tools to arrive at the goal. If one throws ASCII 

I agree with this sentiment; likewise, I do not like that dvips prints
by default in the FreeBSD port of teTeX.

I generally print my files from a machine other than the one on which
I generate PostScript.  When I think of programs like "a2ps" and
"dvips", I think of tools for producing PostScript; when I see "lpr",
I think of printing.  And these are usually two different tasks for
me.



-- 
Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> * Think locally, act globally.
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