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Re: Ghostscript for Mac?

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From: David Spencer
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 12:00
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In <STNGIAM.92Apr13102649@m66-452-1.mit.edu> stngiam@athena.mit.edu (Shih-Tung Ngiam) writes:
>   If my memory serves me right, ghostscript comes from the Free
>Software Foundation (producers of emacs).

Actually, from Alladin, but distributed under the FSF banner.

>If that's the case, then there certainly won't be an official
>ghostscript for the Mac because of the FSF's boycott apple policy.

The gs2.4 README (or one of the *.doc) says something about a mac gs
available by ftp. (Shocked me, too.) If I were at home, I'd look it
up. Does someone have it handy? Put it in the FAQ!
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From: spencer@panix.com (David Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Ghostscript for Mac?
Message-ID: <1992Apr14.120046.22872@panix.com>
Date: 14 Apr 92 12:00:46 GMT
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