Sun4's vs Rutherford Appleton Postscript

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From: Michael Ellis
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1989 03:30

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Has anyone out there installed the Rutherford-Appleton-Lab/Crispin-Goswell
postscript interpreter on a sun 4? 

Has something gone wrong if it requires numerous source hacks in order
to even compile? Can I assume it will take several days if not weeks
to get it up on my sun 4?

I ftp'ed my copy of this freeware from rice.edu. The instructions say to
just type "make", yet it is evident from the makefile that this just
won't do. In fact, it seems pretty obvious that installation instructions 
ought to be present in the distribution (dated 3 Nov 87, from rsalz@uunet).
Perhaps my source is defective or obsolete?

Forgive me if I have offended anyone involved in the creation and distribution
of this free software. It just doesn't work here, and I'd like to confirm
my suspicion that it may take some effort to get it going on a sun 4, running
SunOS Sys4-3.2 (a late version of SunOs 3.5).

Michael Ellis (ellis@unix.sri.com)

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From: ellis@unix.SRI.COM (Michael Ellis)
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Subject: Sun4's vs Rutherford Appleton Postscript
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Date: 24 Mar 89 03:30:33 GMT
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