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Re: Thoughts on 1.99m/Linux



In your message (Mon, 1 May 95 18:43 MDT), CTM wrote:
>>>>>> "Tim" == Zoology  <Tim> writes:
>
>    Tim> The FoxBASE file not found error that I reported for 1.99k is
>    Tim> still there (not really a surprise).  I can't load any
>    Tim> FoxBASE files.  If there's any debug options I should try
>    Tim> please let me know!
>
>There's no debug switch you can use, although if we can't solve it
>some other way we may add one and give you a private copy.  I'm
>checking on a CD-ROM we have that has a bunch of demoware to see if I
>can find a FoxBASE demo.  Who makes FoxBASE these days?  Is there an
>ftp site or bulletin board that may have a demo version?

FoxBASE is I think under the Microsoft umbrella.

>    Tim> Printing I have only tried once, and it broke.  :-( I tried
>    Tim> printing a Word 5.0 document.  The PostScript output by
>    Tim> Executor is broken, somehow.  Aladdin GhostScript 3.12 says:
>
>Yes, someone else has reported this.  I had heard about this before
>1.99m, but there were other printing problems that I *did* fix and I
>forgot that newer GhostScripts don't like our PostScript, even though
>the old GhostScript that we use has no complaints.

Ah.  Perhaps I should go back to the old one.  I wanted full Level 2 
(only available with Aladdin) but I may go back to the old GNU 
version.

>    Tim> And another printing thing... how can I change the paper
>    Tim> size?  Letter output looks awful on A4 paper.
>
>No way to do that now.  What's the normal Linux procedure?

There is no 'normal Linux procedure'.  As with Windows or OS/2, you 
just need to tell it what sort of paper you have.  This is an option 
to ghostscript, for example (-sPAPERSIZE=a4)

What is required is for your PostScript driver to have option buttons 
for the common paper sizes (no-one really uses US Letter in the UK, 
except in some rare cases as fan-fold paper for dot-matrix printers), 
and just generate PostScript to the appropriate dimensions.  I don't 
imagine this is too arduous is it?  For the record, A4 is 
11.69"x8.27", substantially taller and thinner than US letter.

You then leave it up to the user to have the correct paper (as is the 
case now anyway).

Hoping this could be done for 1.99n... :-)

Tim.



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