[Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

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In article <QdydnfWzKbl6P9nWnZ2dnUVZ_oqdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>> In article <DdWdnboFgKI-i9nWnZ2dnUVZ_gCdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>>> Bob Koehler wrote:
>>>> In article <oe6dnbsExJlqqtzWnZ2dnUVZ_uCdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>>>>> I wouldn't expect ANY word processor to be a huge success on VMS.  It's 
>>>>> damned difficult to run a WYSIWYG processor on a system that natively 
>>>>> can output only ASCII text.  You can run it on a workstation but I think 
>>>>> it's a great deal cheaper to run it on a PC.
>>>>    Why in the world do you think VMS "can output only ASCII text"?  I've
>>>>    been using other data formats on VMS since 1980.
>>>>
>>> Which tools in VMS (not layered products) output selectable fonts and 
>>> selectable type sizes?  I can do a lot with TeX and LaTeX but that's not 
>>> native VMS.
>> 
>> $ CONVERT/DOCUMENT ASCII.TXT/FORMAT=TEXT POSTSCRIPT.PS/FORMAT=PS
>
>Simply converting to PostScript is not terribly useful.  The output 
>would still be in the original format.  It would have to be fixed up to 
>change text sizes and fonts where applicable.  It would be easier to do 
>that in LaTeX and let it generate the PostScript.

See /OPTIONS.  CDA, a layered product, needs to be installed in most of the
cases.  However, one can encapsulate the output in antoher postscript file
to changes fonts, etc.  And, last I looked, Postscript was just ASCII. ;)

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