[Info-vax] OT: Holes in paper. (was: Process a .pdf file ?)

[Doug Phillips]

On Nov 19, 1:10 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
wrote:
> Doug Phillips wrote:
> > On Nov 18, 3:43 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
> > wrote:
> >> Bob Eager wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:06:45 -0500, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> >>>>> On this side of the pond we had problems getting hold of the US sized 4
> >>>>> hole binders, and the paper punches to go with them.
> >>>> Four hole??????????  Three hole binders are standard and generally
> >>>> available in the U.S.  I don't believe that I have ever seen a four hole
> >>>> binder or heard of one.
> >>>http://www.viking-direct.co.uk/catalog/catalogSku.do?pr=Q2D&id=56030-WE
> >>> I think the V4/V5 documenttaion came in them.
> >> The V3, V4, and V5 documentation sets were all drilled for three ring
> >> binders here in the U.S.  It's possible that four hole binders are or
> >> were in use somewhere in the world.  If they were ever used here they
> >> were not common!
>
> > ISTRC some documentation updates came with 5 (or maybe 7) hole
> > "universal" punches. But, my wall sets are long gone and many brain
> > cells have died since then so I could be remembering some other
> > vendor.
>
> Well, I think the five hole paper probably fits either the three or two
> hole binders.  It covers most of the bases.

Way off the .pdf topic, and not even very important, but a quick
google shows that there is 5 hole punched paper that works for a 2, 3
or 4 ring binder. The holes are arranged so that 1, 2, 4 and 5 are
equally spaced, and 1, 3 and 5 are equally spaced. I looked in my
basement's why-am-I-keeping-this-sh** area (which *is* in U.S.A.) and
found some 4 ring binders, and even a 5 ring binder which takes paper
with all 5 holes equally spaced. The 7 hole paper should fit any 2, 3,
4 or 5 ring binder.

Anyway, that's way too much of my time spent on holes in paper;-)