Typesetting: streamlining your interface procedures.

From: Folio: the Magazine for Magazine Management | Date: January 1, 1987| Author: Parnau, Jeffery R. | Copyright information

Typesetting: Streamlining your interface procedures

What a conincidence: My Folio: editor is expecting something witty and intelligent about streamlining your interface procedures--and at this very minute I am working with an interface. This old dog of a computer that I keep at home can still generate copy with the best of them. My IBM clones at the office read the disk directly. Since I've got a modern here, I could phone the article in. Then, too, I could phone it to...

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