"sideways" for unix?

Ray E Saddler III ray3rd at ssc-vax.UUCP
Sat Dec 17 04:35:17 AEST 1988


In article <446 at uncle.UUCP>, jbm at uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton) writes:
> In article <9 at ylwpig.UUCP> jep at ylwpig.UUCP (James E. Prior) writes:
> >In article <565 at whizz.uucp> bbh at whizz.uucp (Bud Hovell) writes:
> >>Can anyone say if there is a program out there for unix machines which allows
> >>sideways printing of very wide docs (e.g. spreadsheets)?
> >>
> 
> Well, that depends on your resources. As it turns out, there was a WONDERFUL
> program posted to csu or csm, called "rot". It will rotate text around every
> way you can possibly think of.
> 
I was going to suggest 'rot' also, but then I realized tht Sideways
(tm) actually rotates the text characters as well as the string, so
I beleive there's a lot more looking out ther to do.
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