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- --- /big-dummys-guide-texi/$Id: README.VMS,v 2.2 1994/02/06 13:54:24 joke Rel $
-
- * HEY, HEY! AND WHAT ABOUT VMS SUPPORT?
-
- Dear people of the VMS community,
-
- I know, I know; DUMMY's so unixoid that it's almost impossible to build
- under VMS; and of course we don't want to get into the "Get youself a
- real operapting system!" flame wars of the 80ies.
-
- * OK, OK, SO WHAT TO DO?
-
- If you've received of copy of DUMMY's in the standard A4 paper format,
- i.e. the file "bdgtti-2.2.ps" and want to print this guy on an all-american
- laser printer (some of the newer ones know about the rest of the world's
- paper sizes, though), you can easily do this by prepending the file "a4-fix.ps"
- (see below) to "bdgtti-2.2.ps". Just use a text editor, and there you go.
- If you want to retain pagination control (e.g. using GhostView), you have
- to INSERT the fix after the "%%EndComments" line.
-
- It then will print on a US letter size printer, although it might look a
- bit "distorted", but folks, that's the only possibility for now. If you're
- a passionate VMS hacker and want to help. Just write some ".com" files
- that build DUMMY's on VMS. (Of course you could use DMAKE, which also exists
- in a VMS version, and simply use the Makefile included, but...
- But building this guide must be "almost foolproof" and possible with virtually
- no systems programming knowledge.)
-
- Any kind VMS soul out there?
-
- * A4 POSTSCRIPT ON US LETTER SIZE PRINTER?
-
- %!
- % a4fix.ps
- % Here is a quick hack to print a4 formatted pages.
- % Just add this as a prefix to your document.
- % (To retain pagination control, it should come AFTER the
- % %%EndComments line.)
- % Beware that it distorts the page vertically to make it fit.
- % Also, it might be necessary to adjust the translate amount
- % for some documents.
- %
- % James E. Burns, 1/21/93, burns@nova.bellcore.com
-
- /sp /showpage load def
- /a4fix {1 0.94 scale 0 30 translate} def
- /showpage{sp a4fix} def
- a4fix
-
- * THE CURRENT TEXINFO EDITOR/COORDINATOR?
-
- Joerg Heitkoetter
- <joke@ls11.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
-
- c/o Systems Analysis Research Group, LSXI
- Department of Computer Science
- University of Dortmund
- D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
-