From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Feb 20 16:39:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 084FE10E0B for ; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 16:39:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA04552; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 11:09:22 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA24316; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 11:09:20 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990221110920.A24304@lemis.com> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 11:09:20 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Lawrence E Day , Malartre Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, Michael D Cohn Subject: Re: Y2K Product Readiness Questions from The Boeing Company - 550 References: <618FD3AF120DD111A27900805F19D9C40420C8C3@xch-blv-03.ca.boeing.com> <19990209054318.O86778@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19990209054318.O86778@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 05:43:18AM +1030 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Saturday, 20 February 1999 at 16:28:41 -0500, Malartre wrote: > Lawrence E Day wrote: >> >> The enclosed Supplier Package contains Y2K Readiness questions >> regarding products that we purchased from your company. We request >> your response to these questions within 10 business days from the >> receipt of this e-mail. >> >> If you have any questions regarding the package or this request, >> please contact the Boeing buyer identified within the cover letter >> within the enclosed Supplier Package. >> Name: Supplier Package 768.doc >> Supplier Package 768.doc Type: Microsoft Word Document (application/msword) >> Encoding: base64 I've had correspondence with you on this before, and pointed out that we don't use Microsoft, and that FreeBSD-bugs is the wrong address to send it to. You tried to convert it to PostScript, and failed, though I received enough of the text to discover it was addressed to the Free Software Foundation. See the attachment below: I pointed this out to you and heard nothing more from you. > Here is the HTML conversion from MS-WORD has an attachment, it's not > everyone who can read .doc files... I find it *very* amusing that a 16-year-old student did this for you. I also wonder if the Y2K problem is your major problem if you continue to send messages in inappropriate formats to the wrong address at the wrong organization. Greg On Tuesday, 9 February 1999 at 5:43:18 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 8 February 1999 at 8:05:13 -0800, Day, Lawrence E wrote: >>> On Saturday, February 06, 1999 5:09 PM, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> >>> [Format recovered at freebie.lemis.com] >>> >>> On Saturday, 6 February 1999 at 16:47:02 -0800, Day, Lawrence E wrote: >>>> On Saturday, February 06, 1999 4:29 PM, Greg Lehey wrote: >>>>> On Saturday, 6 February 1999 at 16:08:52 -0800, Lawrence E Day wrote: >>>>>>> On Thursday, February 04, 1999 3:14 PM, Greg Lehey wrote: >>>> If there are some commands in Microsoft Exchange or MSWord 97 that, >>>> when executed on my part, will allow you to easily process it, >>>> please let me know what they are. >>> >>> The easiest way would be to use Word to produce output for an HP >>> LaserJet 5MP (or other PostScript laser printer) and store it to a >>> file. You can then attach that file and we can print it out wherever >>> we happen to be. I know it's possible to do that, and it used to be >>> relatively easy, but I've been told that Microsoft has been hiding >>> this sort of feature. Since I don't use Microsoft, I can't give you >>> any exact instructions, I have something here which I can't >>> substantiate, and since it's translated from German, the names may not >>> be exact: >>> >>> Select the Print Menu. In the dialogue box which you get you'll >>> find a button ``divert to file''. If you select this button, you'll >>> get another dialogue box asking for a file name. And that's it. >>> >> >> See if this works. >> >> <> > > Well, it's not PostScript: > > $ file /tmp/Free_Software_Foundation.prn > /tmp/Free_Software_Foundation.prn: HP PCL printer data > > I tried printing it, and it printed out a page with mutilated data: > the beginnings of the lines were OK, but they were terminated > prematurely with an `i' character in a different font, and the rest of > the line appeared to start at the right margin. Can you print it > locally? > > Anyway, a couple of points emerge: > > 1. We really need PostScript. This is PCL, which requires special > printers (maybe not mine) to print. > > 2. It was addressed to the Free Software Foundation. That's a > different organization. I represent the FreeBSD project. You'll > probably have the same problems contacting the FSF, however, and > the solution would be the same. > > Regards > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message