Re: Lout FAQ/HOWTO

[Chris Herborth]

Previously, Valeriy E. Ushakov (address@hidden) writes:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 1997 at 06:09:16PM +0200, Eric Marsden wrote:
> 
> >    <p>Several of these ports have problems reading Lout <tt/.li/
> >    database files.
> 
> It's misleading.  Only NT port has this problem, and you don't mention
> it.  I'm looking into this bug in my spare time.  It looks like a
> stdio problem (Lout reads input in 8k chunks, but ftell later returns
> some weird value not divisible by 8k).

I've had similar symptoms under QNX and BeOS as well; QNX runs on Intel
boxes, is POSIX 1003.1, and features WATCOM C as a compiler, and BeOS
runs on PowerPC boxes, is nearly POSIX 1003.1, and features Metrowerks
C++ as a compiler.

> > <sect>How do I ... ?
> 
> You might want to add a point on "//" after layout symbols like
> @Document.  This is mentioned in User's Guide but people tend to
> forget about it.  See recent messages on the list.
> 
> And the mailing list address is out of date.
> It's <address@hidden>!!!

Links to sources for the PostScript utilities and other things mentioned
in the document would also be great; it'll save people some time with
Yahoo! or a search engine.

> Thanks for your efforts.

Yes!

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