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The question was:

>What should those of us who want a server with a spiffy interpretive
>interface (ala Postscript & psh) do, then?

Answer 1:

>> Or input the necessary cycles into building up ghostscript and then use it
>> with the X11 port.

Why in Finagle's name would I use it with the X11 port, when I could
use it with the Amiga direct?

>> Or one could always drop $100K (?) on Adobe and ask them to port
>> Display Postscript to the Amiga.

Be cheaper to buy a NeXT box :-).

>> the X11 port is the only real solution to a networking window
>> system on AmigaDOS.

In which case, I'm glad that's not the problem I'm solving. I'm trying
to find an environment that's as much fun as the NeWS environment.

>> What happens under Amiga Unix is another story, of course.

As the saying goes, if I wanted a Unix box, I woulda bought a Unix
box.

Answer 2:

>> You could use the "Winterp" widgit interpreter in combination with
>> X11.

Winterp is not the solution. It's a better tool for building
applications than gwm, but not than NeWS. For instance, I'd like to
see the NeWS transparent clock done in winterp.

>> I've been toying with the idea of re-writing Postscript with scheme
>> to use as the base graphics language for a new interpretive
>> network-transparent windowing system.

So have lots of people. Before you actually start, you might want to
look at gjc's siod. The latest version has the "lisp" part of the code
lifted into a (link-time) library specifically so it can be wrapped up
with other applications.

AREXX+RexxARPLib is the closest thing to the answer. And it's still
got problems (that transparent clock hack is just hard to copy!).

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