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Article #1241Re: PostScript in PostScript
From: J. Daniel Smith
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1989 02:27
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1989 02:27
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In article <7800@cg-atla.UUCP> felleman@cg-atla.UUCP (John Felleman) writes:
>
>Someone here at Agfa Compugraphic recently pointed out how regressive
>it was that our computerized discussions of PostScript were limited to
>[...]
>screens. Access to the display filter would be similar to the way that
>'rn' displays rot13 articles.
>
>Let's start a discussion about the feasibility and
>desirability of this concept.
Sounds like a neat idea to me. But a lot of poor souls must still
read news on a plain old terminal. Most of them would loose all their
graphics. Also, previews tend to be rather expensive in terms of a
Workstation, disk space, CPU time, etc. Still, I think this is a neat
idea.
Dan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!snorkelwacker!apple!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!uwvax!tank!eecae!cps3xx!cpsvax!smithda From: smithda@cpsvax.cps.msu.edu (J. Daniel Smith) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: PostScript in PostScript Keywords: graphical newsgroup Message-ID: <5106@cps3xx.UUCP> Date: 25 Oct 89 02:27:37 GMT References: <7800@cg-atla.UUCP> Sender: usenet@cps3xx.UUCP Reply-To: smithda@cpsvax.UUCP (J. Daniel Smith) Distribution: comp Organization: Michigan State University, Computer Science Department Lines: 25