1996-01-26 - Re: Microsoft’s CryptoAPI - thoughts?

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From: lull@acm.org (John Lull)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
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UTC Datetime: 1996-01-26 17:17:46 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 01:17:46 +0800

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From: lull@acm.org (John Lull)
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 01:17:46 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
Subject: Re: Microsoft's CryptoAPI - thoughts?
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On Fri, 26 Jan 1996 03:02:56 -0500 (EST), Futplex wrote:

> Has someone here managed to extract PostScript hardcopy of the CAPI from this
> Web page? I tried earlier this evening and wound up with a miniature 
> ecological disaster on my hands. The page says:

No problem on a LaserJet 4M.



> "For ease of online reading and printing, we've provided copies of this
> lengthy document in Microsoft Word and Postscript formats."

I tried printing the Word version from WordView, also, and ran into
major problems.  It absolutely insisted on setting the printer to
manual feed, and when I tried to print the odd-numbered pages,
WordView crashed complletely.

> Worse still, it appears that the
> capiapp.ps file is actually a catenation of many PostScript files (one per
> chapter?), each beginning with a version of this ensnarling line.

Maybe that's why I couldn't extract odd & even-numbered pages.






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