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Article #3920Re: X-window PS for VMS?
From: If its too loud, You're too old
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 15:52
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 15:52
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In article <1992Sep30.205626.8975@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, val@news.ccutah.edu (Val Kartchner) writes: >I'm currently developing a Postscript program for printing a report. I will >also be doing other reports in the future. However, the only Postscript >interpreter that I have available is a printer. I've already printed a third >of a ream (sp?) of paper, and I do hate killing trees. > >I would like to use the X-station that is sitting on my desk as the output >device until I want a hardcopy output. I've found Ghostscript (GNU's >Postscript interpreter) on athena-dist.mit.edu, but I don't have the time nor >the inclination to port it. (I've tried to port GNU stuff before, you see.) > >Would someone happen to know a site from which I may ftp an executable for >VMS? (No comments on my choice of platform, please. That's not the issue.) >In case that is not available, would someone know where I could get the C >source code already ported for VMS? > > Thanks in advance, > -=:[ VAL ]:=- > >P.S.: Followup if you think it's relevant, or send mail to me (at the address > in my signature). I'll followup if I get significant replies. >-- >|===== The previous was my opinion -- val@csulx.weber.edu =====///============| >| "AMIGA: The computer for the creative mind." (tm) Commodore /// Weber State | >| "Macintosh: The computer for the rest of us."(tm) Apple \\\/// University | >|============== "I think, therefore I AMiga." =============\///=== Ogden, UT =| Depending on what version of VMS you have installed and whether or not DECwindows is installed, you may have a PostScript viewer. Try $View/Interface=DecWindows/Format=PostScript 'file.ps' or $Help View al Al Lilianstrom Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, Illinois lilianstrom@fndcd.fnal.gov My opinion. Not the DOE's, URA's, or anyone else at Fermilab
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!mp.cs.niu.edu!fnnews.fnal.gov!krang.fnal.gov!LILIANSTROM From: lilianstrom@krang.fnal.gov (If its too loud, You're too old) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: X-window PS for VMS? Date: 1 Oct 1992 15:52:42 GMT Organization: Fermilab Special Projects Group Lines: 43 Message-ID: <1af6saINNrrn@fnnews.fnal.gov> References: <1992Sep30.205626.8975@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Reply-To: lilianstrom@fndcd.fnal.gov NNTP-Posting-Host: krang.fnal.gov