* proof(1)
@ 2015-09-15 13:01 Julius Schmidt
2015-09-15 15:40 ` [9front] proof(1) Ethan Grammatikidis
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From: Julius Schmidt @ 2015-09-15 13:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Why does this program still exist?
It seems to be a poor man's version of page(1).
Is it ever useful?
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* Re: [9front] proof(1)
2015-09-15 13:01 proof(1) Julius Schmidt
@ 2015-09-15 15:40 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
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From: Ethan Grammatikidis @ 2015-09-15 15:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Tue, Sep 15, 2015, at 02:01 PM, Julius Schmidt wrote:
> Why does this program still exist?
> It seems to be a poor man's version of page(1).
> Is it ever useful?
>
I assume proof was for previewing documents to be printed; the name being short for "proof-read".
As for present use, the only one I can think of is to do with my preference for man -P (render man page as postscript and show in page), together with the fact that postscript doesn't work in page on my x61, but proof's text quality is so poor I couldn't be bothered.
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