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From: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
To: Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk>
Cc: coff@tuhs.org
Subject: [COFF] Re: On Bloat and the Idea of Small Specialized Tools
Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 23:18:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240511211843.WS4s1gBI@steffen%sdaoden.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240511091822.B6691215AA@orac.inputplus.co.uk>

Ralph Corderoy wrote in
 <20240511091822.B6691215AA@orac.inputplus.co.uk>:
 |Hi Steffen,
 |
 |> pr has always been enscript here, for example.
 |
 |enscript turns text into PostScript.  That's not too handy to read.
 |pr's output doesn't have to be sent to a printer.  I doubt there's
 |a week goes by without my using it.  It just depends what your fingers
 |know.

Nah, it can create text too (with control sequences, but that you
can filter away again, and mostly there are none, anyway).
I am actually not using it no more that often; i used it often to
review (80 column) code via printout, and it can/could give you
8 pages on a single DIN A4 paper.  (Or two times 4 pages, to be
more exact.)

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)

  reply	other threads:[~2024-05-11 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-10 16:36 [COFF] " Clem Cole
2024-05-10 23:02 ` [COFF] Re: [TUHS] " Steffen Nurpmeso
2024-05-11  9:18   ` [COFF] " Ralph Corderoy
2024-05-11 21:18     ` Steffen Nurpmeso [this message]
2024-05-11 21:33       ` Larry McVoy
2024-05-10 23:22 ` [COFF] Re: [TUHS] " Nevin Liber
2024-05-11  9:31   ` [COFF] " Ralph Corderoy
2024-05-11 12:51   ` [COFF] Re: [TUHS] " John P. Linderman
2024-05-11 13:12   ` Dan Cross
2024-05-11 14:41     ` Bakul Shah via COFF
2024-05-11 15:45     ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2024-05-11 17:18       ` [COFF] " Ralph Corderoy
2024-05-11 21:35     ` [COFF] Re: [TUHS] " Theodore Ts'o
2024-05-12  7:13       ` Gergely Buday
2024-05-12  7:29       ` [COFF] " Ralph Corderoy
2024-05-12 22:23         ` Dave Horsfall
2024-05-11 19:24   ` [COFF] Re: [TUHS] " Clem Cole
2024-05-13  6:20   ` [COFF] " Arno Griffioen via COFF

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