From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
Subject: Re: pbm files and elisp manual
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:13:55 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m18CgIF-000IeGC@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u4raj13zo.fsf@ID-87814.user.dfncis.de> (message from Oliver Scholz on Fri, 15 Nov 2002 12:12:11 +0100)
alkibiades@gmx.de wrote:
> ... I see
> that all the xpm files have a pbm counterpart. I don't know why
> they are needed (do people really have binary displays ?)
People run Emacs on impoverished hardware. Or they work remotely over
communications lines running at 150 baud. One of the great advantages
of Emacs is that it discriminates less than other programs. You can
use GNU Emacs to work in difficult circumstances.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-15 13:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-14 20:54 pbm files and elisp manual Nick Roberts
2002-11-15 11:12 ` Oliver Scholz
2002-11-15 13:13 ` Robert J. Chassell [this message]
2002-11-16 0:11 ` Nick Roberts
2002-11-16 2:34 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-11-16 1:34 ` Richard Stallman
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