[comp.text] Transcript and whatever happened to -L and -M

jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) (07/06/89)

I'm using transcipt 2.1 on a sequent symetry and have noticed that
the landscape option and manual feed option (-L and -M) have disappeared
from the psdit and pscat programs.

What's odd is that they are in transcript 2.0.  I know they have been
removed because the prologue has also changed.  In 2.0 pscat.pro had
a BPL definition for landscape and psdit.pro had xiL.  In 2.1 no
such definitions exist.

It's really wierd to find functionality taken out of a package.
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greid@adobe.com (Glenn Reid) (07/08/89)

In article <654@kl-cs.UUCP> jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) writes:
>I'm using transcipt 2.1 on a sequent symetry and have noticed that
>the landscape option and manual feed option (-L and -M) have disappeared
>from the psdit and pscat programs.
>
>What's odd is that they are in transcript 2.0.  I know they have been
>removed because the prologue has also changed.  In 2.0 pscat.pro had
>a BPL definition for landscape and psdit.pro had xiL.  In 2.1 no
>such definitions exist.

My (second-hand) understanding of this is that Sun Microsystems added
the -L and -M options, and that they were never in any versions from
Adobe (although they hopefully will be in the future?).  If it may
happen that you got 2.0 from Sun and 2.1 through another channel
(or direct from Adobe), that might explain/substantiate this.

Sun has a source/redistribution license for TranScript, and have added
a few features of their own along the way...

I hope this helps.

Glenn Reid
Adobe Systems
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