[COFF] On Bloat and the Idea of Small Specialized Tools

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Ralph Corderoy wrote in
 <20240511091822.B6691215AA at orac.inputplus.co.uk>:
 |Hi Steffen,
 |
 |> pr has always been enscript here, for example.
 |
 |enscript turns text into PostScript.  That's not too handy to read.
 |pr's output doesn't have to be sent to a printer.  I doubt there's
 |a week goes by without my using it.  It just depends what your fingers
 |know.

Nah, it can create text too (with control sequences, but that you
can filter away again, and mostly there are none, anyway).
I am actually not using it no more that often; i used it often to
review (80 column) code via printout, and it can/could give you
8 pages on a single DIN A4 paper.  (Or two times 4 pages, to be
more exact.)

--steffen
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|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
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