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| From | Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.dec, comp.os.vms |
| Subject | Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation |
| Date | 2011-04-24 09:49 -0700 |
| Organization | Update Computer Club |
| Message-ID | <ip1ka0$cpo$1@Iltempo.Update.UU.SE> (permalink) |
| References | (1 earlier) <QNerp.38615$5t2.510@newsfe06.ams2> <2c2dna-E5v7FHjDQnZ2dnUVZ_s-dnZ2d@earthlink.com> <mn.bd2b7db410794387.104627@invalid.skynet.be> <paul.nospam-DAEC25.07241924042011@pbook.sture.ch> <ItKdnXfBNcYqvinQnZ2dnUVZ_gidnZ2d@giganews.com> |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
On 2011-04-24 06:20, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> On 4/24/2011 1:24 AM, Paul Sture wrote:
>> In article<mn.bd2b7db410794387.104627@invalid.skynet.be>,
>> Marc Van Dyck<marc.gr.vandyck@invalid.skynet.be> wrote:
>>
>>> John Reagan explained :
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't know what the printer manuals used, but for the language
>>>> manuals
>>>> the
>>>> diagrams were produced by a internal tool called RAGS. By the time,
>>>> I saw
>>>> them, they were in .eps format.
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>
>>> RAGS was later made an official product, and integreated in
>>> DECdocument.
>>> You could activate it with the command DOCUMENT/GRAPHICS.
>>>
>>> If I remember well, DECdocument, along with DECwrite, and a few others,
>>> were transferred to a company named Touch Technologies. I have been
>>> in relation with them when I wanted to buy DECinspect, another product
>>> that got transferred. It stopped abruptly when I requested them to
>>> show me their Integrity porting plans. None of those products were
>>> ever ported and I don't know whether the company still exists. I still
>>> regret DECdocument today.
>>>
>>> Fortunately, I don't have too much work to with MS Word, as management
>>> today only wants to see bulleted lists and green smileys. For that,
>>> slides out of MS Powerpoint are largely enough. And for serious docs,
>>> I reverted to Runoff...
>>
>> Good old Runoff. I was thinking of it with fond memories the other day
>> when trying to persuade Word to do a numbered list correctly.
>>
>
> Ahhhh!!!!! Memories. Runoff, ROFF for short, was my first word
> processor. Back in the dark ages, text was entered via 80 column punched
> cards. Card punches punched upper case only unless you memorized the
> punch codes and could do tricky things with a keyboard that was upper
> case only.
>
> I wouldn't go back for anything!!!
I doubt very many would want to go back to punched cards and uppercase
only terminals...
Johnny
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Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation urbancamo <mark@wickensonline.co.uk> - 2011-04-19 01:26 -0700
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation ChrisQ <meru@devnull.com> - 2011-04-19 12:58 +0100
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm@telia.com> - 2011-04-19 14:00 +0200
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation "John Reagan" <johnrreagan@earthlink.net> - 2011-04-19 08:42 -0400
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation ChrisQ <meru@devnull.com> - 2011-04-19 16:55 +0100
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation billg999@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) - 2011-04-19 16:07 +0000
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation urbancamo <mark@wickensonline.co.uk> - 2011-04-19 12:54 -0700
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation ChrisQ <meru@devnull.com> - 2011-04-19 22:27 +0100
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation John Wallace <johnwallace4@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-04-19 15:29 -0700
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-04-20 08:14 +0200
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation ChrisQ <meru@devnull.com> - 2011-04-22 12:11 +0100
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-04-22 15:09 +0200
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation John Wallace <johnwallace4@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-04-23 03:32 -0700
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-04-25 11:07 +0200
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Hans Bachner <Hans@Bachner.priv.at> - 2011-04-19 23:55 +0000
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-04-20 06:38 +0200
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation urbancamo <mark@wickensonline.co.uk> - 2011-04-20 00:54 -0700
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation seasoned_geek <roland@logikalsolutions.com> - 2011-04-21 11:08 -0700
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Marc Van Dyck <marc.gr.vandyck@invalid.skynet.be> - 2011-04-23 22:03 +0200
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-04-24 07:24 +0200
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> - 2011-04-24 09:20 -0400
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-04-24 09:49 -0700
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2011-04-25 02:30 +0000
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2011-04-25 02:40 +0000
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-04-24 23:07 -0700
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) - 2011-04-25 08:15 -0500
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-04-25 10:58 -0700
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) - 2011-04-25 15:25 -0500
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2011-04-25 20:54 +0000
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2011-04-25 21:25 +0000
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2011-04-26 04:59 +0000
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2011-04-26 10:11 -0400
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2011-04-28 00:15 +0000
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2011-04-25 16:01 +0000
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-04-25 11:03 -0700
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2011-04-25 21:29 +0000
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-04-25 23:40 -0700
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2011-04-28 00:34 +0000
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-04-27 20:42 -0700
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation MetaEd <metaed@gmail.com> - 2011-04-26 08:19 -0700
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-04-26 09:46 -0700
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation MetaEd <metaed@gmail.com> - 2011-04-27 12:19 -0700
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2011-04-28 00:24 +0000
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> - 2011-04-25 08:02 -0400
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-04-25 10:53 +0200
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) - 2011-04-25 08:14 -0500
Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-04-25 23:13 +0200
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