X-window PS for VMS?

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3 total messages Started by Val Kartchner Wed, 30 Sep 1992 20:56

#3902

Author: Val Kartchner
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 20:56

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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.
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Re: X-window PS for VMS?

#3923

Author: Chris Lilley
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 03:13

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In article <1992Sep30.205626.8975@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
val@news.ccutah.edu (Val Kartchner) writes:

>I would like to use the X-station that is sitting on my desk as the output
>device until I want a hardcopy output.  

>Would someone happen to know a site from which I may ftp an executable for
>VMS?  

No problem, the software is already in place on your DEC workstation.
The X server has the display PostScript extension (unlike many other
vendors X servers). Either use the CDA viewer or link the PS file into
something like DECwrite, which displays PS figures as you edit the
document (*real* WYSIWYG!)

I use such a set-up every day on my VAXstation 4000 VLC.

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Chris Lilley
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Re: X-window PS for VMS?

#3920

Author: If its too loud, You're too old
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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