Re: Why troff?

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From: kuo
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 1987 01:02

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In article <24357@rochester.ARPA>, ken@rochester.ARPA (SKY) writes:
> 
> I would never send dvi files, either troff or TeX unless absolutely
> necessary. While -ms or -me based text is portable in theory, I have
> had better luck porting TeX files.
> 
> 	Ken

Just for fun one time, I send an dvi file generated by Micro-TeX (from A-W)
to be printed on a QMS laser printer on our VMS system. The output from the
laser printer is EXACTLY the same as I get from my dot-matrix printer on my
PC (ie line breaks and page breaks; of coure I don't mean quality (8-)). So
as long as the fonts you use in creating the dvi file is available to the
printer on the target machine, you send send dvi files around with no trouble
at all.

... Peter/

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