[3417] in SIPB bug reports
Re: [sokoloff@Athena.MIT.EDU: OLH suggestion]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (web@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Tue Jan 12 17:09:25 1993
From: web@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: docsourc@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: olh-suggest@Athena.MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 12 Jan 93 11:02:44 -0500.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 17:09:04 EST
> OLH just points to the SIPB document. Can someone deal with this and let us
> know at olh-suggest? (It's still doing it.)
>
> Thanks,
> Sharon
>
> ------- Forwarded Message
>
> From: sokoloff@Athena.MIT.EDU
> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 16:36:25 -0500
> To: olh-suggest@Athena.MIT.EDU
> Subject: OLH suggestion
>
> Something is not quite right with the SIPB document:
> label Netnews: A One-Page Guide to the Usenet
> pointer sipb:netnews
the problem is that there are certain character combinations (such as
'fi') that when compiled with times will crash the standard athena
xdvi because it uses a funky character substituted in. If you use
the sipb xdvi, it will be omitted.
Compiling everything with cmr fixes it, but then people might not like
the looks of things as much as with times (at least for the printouts).
So... possible alternatives are to keep a cmr compiled version of
everything just for olh (which means more disk usage), convert
everything to cmr (which means ugliness to some eyes), or olh (and
athena?) should use sipb's version of xdvi.
what do y'all think?
-Chee
