Re:The Missing 11th of the Month
by kragen on Thursday June 19, 2025 @02:43PM
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You said:
> in "ascii" mode it overstruck a plus symbol with a letter 'o', one of many such typewriting tricks, which no-one but those printing manual pages to old printers capable of the same typewriting trick would have ever seen
I was pointing out that you don't need an old printer to see them; `enscript` and `a2ps` are perfectly capable of showing them to you. So it is not the case that, as you said,
> Reading stuff that was destined for old typewriter-like printers (...) is straying (...) far from what strogonoff and I were (...) talking about.
The rest of your comment seems to be you getting mad that you found my comments hard to interpret sensibly.
> in "ascii" mode it overstruck a plus symbol with a letter 'o', one of many such typewriting tricks, which no-one but those printing manual pages to old printers capable of the same typewriting trick would have ever seen
I was pointing out that you don't need an old printer to see them; `enscript` and `a2ps` are perfectly capable of showing them to you. So it is not the case that, as you said,
> Reading stuff that was destined for old typewriter-like printers (...) is straying (...) far from what strogonoff and I were (...) talking about.
The rest of your comment seems to be you getting mad that you found my comments hard to interpret sensibly.