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Re: xpr should have default "-device ps"

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Feb 10 18:26:27 1989

From: <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 89 18:26:10 EST
To: paul@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Paul Boutin's message of Thu, 9 Feb 89 15:20:49 EST,
Reply-To: Richard Basch   <probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>

> The default, "-device ln03" pretty much renders unprintable output for
> all but a handful of printers we have left.  All but a few intentional
> printers are now, or will this term be, Postscript.

I don't know if we can make such a change without lots of posters... It
has been publicized that screen dumps should be sent to "europa" and
since "europa" is still used, changing the default will cause problems.

-Richard

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