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Re: ASCII -> Postscript Filter

#8570
From: J Greely
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1989 20:27
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In article <1989Dec14.163841.16431@ericsson.se> howard@hasse.ericsson.se
 (Howard Gayle) writes:
[lengthy blurb deleted]

Note that you also get, at no extra charge, a complete software
installation philosophy!  Wear it to parties!  Amuse your friends!
Frighten children! (not that it's a *bad* system, necessarily, but
it's rather surprising to find such an amazing amount of extraneous
stuff in a source posting)

>      WHAT TO GET FROM THE ARCHIVE
>cz        comp.sources.misc volume 8 issues 65-75, 77-78 ( 1 Oct 1989)
>                                     issue  97           (28 Oct 1989)
>libhoward comp.sources.misc volume 8 issues 80-87        ( 1 Oct 1989)
>                                     issue  96           (28 Oct 1989)

Also, you need:
	GNU Make, version 3.54 or higher,
	sets, from comp.sources.unix, vol 13, #68,
	LaTeX (if you want to understand the installation system),
	and, possibly, config2, from comp.sources.misc. vol 6, #96

Note that the supplied README file suggests that you *might* need GNU
Make.  Nonsense.  You can't get anywhere without it, so don't even
try.

  For people who are GNU-shy, the whole package is covered by the GNU
Public License.

  Pretty hefty baggage for a text-to-PS converter, no?  I might
compile it to look at it, but I think I'll spare our users for a
while.  Enscript may lack the "gee-whiz" features, but it's simple to
use (modulo the undocumented escape sequences), small, and produces
decent PostScript.
--
J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)
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