From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]) by ur; Tue Sep 15 11:40:30 EDT 2015 Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.internal [10.202.2.42]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 571BB22F32 for <9front@9front.org>; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 11:40:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from web3 ([10.202.2.213]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 15 Sep 2015 11:40:27 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fastmail.fm; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-sasl-enc :x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=h1UKs2jSsVMRW6DKTRDVEC+5NkE=; b=jWAMjV KsToV2UkexpNmqWD5Yjg4iRpgN+QhayLS/+JMdteOgaZy5aEY7RWeSL9qUoAuuv9 h6XHnqA36qv7Dlq8INBeDYykmykDVIxn5qvqJqIu+zCr2+s0R1lNqd0vZTI2fuuP I5ISWpPI835f5XWdpEp9VB2PkOed68B2Lt20s= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=h1UKs2jSsVMRW6D KTRDVEC+5NkE=; b=tJKHUYdPdLToofqVNaMicYLZ1fxy8to8WVjPexV0uK4mkIE AHTnplmdmhN3lpQWDL+/KMNmJthX+8cp/3gEEi9okS5ab9OEB/ISDTTBYPCZTFAh HpSnGFHprvuIBhalI0I7hVWCyPE9OZauhYmDatr6bVDv+wW++SKNU3P5ilk0= Received: by web3.nyi.internal (Postfix, from userid 99) id 2D848102ED6; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 11:40:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1442331627.2847726.384314161.3B8472FE@webmail.messagingengine.com> List-ID: <9front.9front.org> List-Help: X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: managed cloud-oriented lifecycle frontend X-Sasl-Enc: 3LGQYgrOVdXbFtpmPAo7QcmAUvbt2JL1jZGUhiVIYovq 1442331627 From: Ethan Grammatikidis To: 9front@9front.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-746d2121 Subject: Re: [9front] proof(1) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 16:40:27 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: 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. -- Wir mussen wissen, wir werden wissen.