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Re: PSDIT

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From: Robert Andrew Ryan
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:57
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.soft-sys.andrew: 10-Nov-92 PSDIT Leslie
Hart@nipmuc.fsl.n (107)

> I don't have psdit on my system.  Is there a (PD) place I can
find psdit?

Unfortunately not, see below for Adobe's address.  If you have C/A/T
troff you can use psroff. Alternately you can get the GNU groff (which
requires C++, AT&T cfront 2.1, and gcc 2.2.2 have been used
successfully).

No endorsement of the following products or organizations is implied. 
We routinely use transcript, and we have successfully used groff
compiled both with gcc 2.2.2 and with AT&T cfront 2.1.

From the ATK FAQ:

transcript (psdit)
	Contact: 
		Adobe
		1585 Charleston Road
		P.O. Box 7900
		Mountain View, CA 94039-7900
	phone: 1-800-833-6687

psroff	(note that psroff doesn't allow printing of embedded postscript,
used for rasters, zips, and in the next release figures.)
	Software augmenting troff and providing printer drivers.
	on cdrom: src/util/psroff  is version 3.0 patch level 07
	contact:  Chris Lewis
	psroff-request@ferret.ocunix.on.ca

GNU software: groff, g++, gcc, gdb, gnuemacs, ... 
    Free software, eventually replacing Un*x
    ftp: prep.ai.mit.edu
        see pub/gnu/GNUinfo/FTP
        and pub/gnu/etc/DISTRIB
    email: gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu
    mailing address:
        Free Software Foundation, Inc.
        675 Massachusetts Avenue
        Cambridge, MA  02139
        USA
    phone:  +1 617-876-3296

-Rob Ryan
Andrew Consortium
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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 09:57:54 -0500 
From: Robert Andrew Ryan <rr2b+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: PSDIT
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