Re: ms macro of DWB2.0

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From: nils-peter.nelson
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1991 19:24

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In article <1991Apr30.130418.8856@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>, pstowne@zargon.lerc.nasa.gov (Charlie Towne) writes:
> In article <1991Apr29.205801.4952@cbnewsl.att.com> npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson) writes:
> >
> >The -ms macros, used mostly by Bell Labs Research and
> >Universities, are distributed with DWB 3.1. 
> 
> I'm a little confused.  In "UNIX Text Processing" by Dougherty & O'Reilly,
> it says that the ms macros are "no longer officially supported by AT&T."
> That's the main reason I started using mm.  Is this no longer true?  Was
> it ever?
> 

Undoubtedly, AT&T misled you. Since DWB 2.0 was generally
unsupported, -ms was too :-).  Not only is it alive-- the
new page makeup macros are based on it. -mm is generally
more feature-rich, but more complex and weighty as a result.
Inside AT&T far more people use -mm than -ms, but it's
your choice.

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From: npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson)
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Subject: Re: ms macro of DWB2.0
Summary: -ms is still alive
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.192448.11539@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 30 Apr 91 19:24:48 GMT
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