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From: deborah@gallifrey.microunity.com (Deborah Gronke Bennett)
Subject: Re: MP - a postscript formatting utility
In-Reply-To: Robin Birch's message of Thu, 04 Jan 1996 16:38:00 GMT
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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 01:49:40 GMT
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In article <624706811wnr@falstaf.demon.co.uk> Robin Birch <robin@falstaf.demon.co.uk> writes:
Dear All,
Suns used to have, they may still do for all I know, a utility called
mp which postscript pretty printed mail and listings. I believe that
the source was available from ftp. Can someone confirm this and tell
me where?.
Here's the AUTHORS section of the mp(1L) manpage from SunOS 4.1.4:
Original version by Steve Holden.
Converted to C, modified and maintained by Rich Burridge,
Sun Microsystems, Australia.
Original modified to handle net news articles and MH mail by
Bruno Pillard, Chorus Systemes, France,
Handling of mail digests added by Dave Glowacki of Public
Works Computer Services, St Paul, MN.
Manual page revised by Rick Rodgers, UCSF School of Phar-
macy, San Francicso.
Support for Personal Organiser printing style added by Doug-
las Buchanan, Sun Microsystems Europe.
Substantial modifications to header parsing by Jeremy
Webber, Computer Science Department, University of Adelaide,
Australia.
Support for printing multiple files and subject line
filename print for ordinary ASCII files added by Sam
Manoharan, Edinburgh University.
Support for landscape mode written by Michael Tuciarone.
Revision of the POSTSCRIPT structuring and the way that the
prologue files are handled was included by Johan Vromans
Rich Burridge, Domain: richb@Aus.Sun.COM
PHONE: +61 2 413 2666 Path: {uunet,mcvax,ukc}!munnari!sunaus.oz!richb
Sun Release 4.1 Last change: 14 September 1990
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Deborah Gronke Bennett (WD5HJH) kernel and device drivers engineer
deborah@microunity.com (408)-734-8100
MicroUnity Systems Eng., 255 Caspian Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1015 USA