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Re: Want Laser Prep walkthrough

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From: Ken Jenkins
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1988 19:55
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In article <788@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk>, liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts) writes:
> I have plans to write a paper entitled something like
> 
>          A Short History of the Apple LaserPrep:
>         The Primrose Path to the Enternal Bonfire
> 
> This will demonstrate the way in which the Apple LaserPrep code
> has moved further and further away from good taste and decency,
> resulting in the current state of affairs in which the code
> conforms almost to the letter of the document structuring
> conventions whilst being utterly against the spirit!
> 
> Incidentally, if anyone out there expects to be able to use
> modern Apple PostScript inside things like psfig, then they
> might as well forget it now and not waste time trying to
> pretend that this stuff can be used in the same way as the
> early LaserPreps.
> 
> Can anyone suggest a good place to publish such a paper?
> -- 
> 
> William Roberts         ARPA: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk  (gw: cs.ucl.edu)
> Queen Mary College      UUCP: liam@qmc-cs.UUCP
> LONDON, UK              Tel:  01-975 5250

Give 'um hell Bill!!!!! :-)

You might try:

The PostScript Language Journal
P.O.Box 5763
Parsippany, NJ 07054
USA


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From: edwards@bgsuvax.UUCP (Ken Jenkins)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Want Laser Prep walkthrough
Keywords: PostSCript, LaserPrep
Message-ID: <3302@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 88 19:55:17 GMT
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