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- From: cewyatt@cew.com (C. E. Wyatt)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: are USR Couriers really a superior modem?
- Date: 16 Mar 1996 18:35:49 GMT
- Organization: MindSpring Enterprises
- Message-ID: <4if1m5$20c@B1FF.mindspring.com>
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- In message <4ic880$fqr@access2.digex.net> - bond@access2.digex.net (Sean
- Connery)15 Mar 1996 12:09:20 -0500 writes:
- --
- --In article <4i7ihj$aim@B1FF.mindspring.com>,
- --C. E. Wyatt <cewyatt@cew.com> wrote:
- --
- -->--Like having docs in acrobat instead of postscript, USR seems to lack
- -->--a sense of what would make the customer happy after the sale.
- -->----
- -->
- -->I would imagine more people have access to Acrobat (which is free) than the
- -->ability to read postscript files. At least they're not putting them in
- -->something ungodly like MS Word 6.0, etc.
- --
- --Anyone smart enough to go and download Acrobat SHOULD also be smart
- --enough to go and download Ghostscript!! Stop whining...PS has been
- --around a lot longer and I assume the docs have always been in PS...for
- --years... Go get Ghostscript...it's on every platform...and I also heard
- --it can now read Acrobat files to boot!
- --
-
- I have tried Ghostscript. In the past I found it cumbersome and very buggy.
- The newest version for OS/2 is so buggy as to be unusable -- it reads the
- first page, but then dies and locks up the message queue with it, requiring a
- reboot. No thanks.
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- C. E.
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- "Imagine there's no heaven. It isn't hard to do. No Hell below
- us. No religion, too."
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- -- John Lennon
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- C. E. Wyatt
- Atlanta, Georgia
- cewyatt@cew.com
- http://www.cew.com/~cewyatt
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