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Date:      Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:50:11 +0200
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
Cc:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: man -t odd page size
Message-ID:  <20081023105011.893a479a.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <20081023174911.P4254@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
References:  <20081023035928.C55AC1065738@hub.freebsd.org> <20081023174911.P4254@sola.nimnet.asn.au>

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On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:37:56 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> wrote:
> Polytropon: thanks for pdfman script - but does 'pdfman ipfw' work for 
> you?  Here the 'overprinting' is misaligned in gv, while others are ok.

Yes, but it outputs an error message:

	<standard input>:2620: warning [p 25, 6.2i]: cannot adjust line

The PDF file is 26 pages long. Maybe another PDF viewer will work
better (xpdf)?



> Well, a quarter of the people on this planet live in China, so by your 
> theory shouldn't the FreeBSD lists, docs and code all be in Chinese?

Let me follow this Micky Mouse Logic. :-) Because the computer has
been invented by a German, all computer stuff should be in the
german language. And now all the Americans can feel how the average
german computer user feels today: scared by all the things he doesn't
understand. :-)



> What actually works and is adopted in the real world determines that.

Nota bene:

The worst solution always prevails.

People want cheap, they get cheap.

Insert bunch of Murphy's laws here.

:-)


> Ask yourself: how come the world uses TCP/IP for internet communications 
> rather than the OSI X.200-X.219 suite?  How come we're still using SMTP 
> plus a pile of RFCs to deliver email rather than the X.400-X.420 suite?

Having worked with the AX.25 protocol (on amateur radio), sometimes
I tend to thing... oh what a crap is TCP/IP... :-)





-- 
Polytropon
>From Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...



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