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In article <1992Dec19.194250.26583@sophia.smith.edu> orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke) writes:
>I need psfix to "fix" the postscript files output by Mathematica on a NeXT.

Got it, thanks to Magnus Nordborg (magnus@fisher.stanford.edu)!	:-j

In <1992Dec19.194250.26583@sophia.smith.edu> orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke) writes:

>I need psfix to "fix" the postscript files output by Mathematica on
>a NeXT.  My Mma/NeXT manual tells me it was distributed with Mma,
>but it (and related ps programs) are nowhere to be found on my NeXT.
>Any advice would be appreciated.  Since psfix is probably just a
>short shell script, maybe someone can mail it to me?  Thanks!

I seriously doubt that you are missing psfix, it's simply that it's
in an unusual path, and in what even WRI admits is probably a bug, it's
not in the path.  

Open up Mathematica.app and look in the subdirectory /Kernel/Display and
psfix should be there.  Mma itself can access it, for it uses PSfix when
you do the "convert pasteboard" approach to pasting or saving an individual
graphic, or if you save a notebook to a PS file from the print panel (try
one of these to see if you get a valid file, i..e select a graphic, copy
it, hit "convert pasteboard" (command-m) and then the EPS option and save
to file option, and you shoudl end up with a valid EPS file.

The best thing to do to make psfix available on a more general basis is
to simply copy if from Mathematica.app/Kernel/Display to /usr/local/bin
or somehwere else in the path (what version of Mma do you have?  when I
discussed this with WRI right after 2.0 came out they told me it woudl be 
fixed in 2.1?). Alternatively you could make a symbolic link, but the file
is so small (~50 Kb) that I'd recommend a straight copy.

If you ARE really missing psfix then I would contact WRI and get an 
entirely new version of Mma, since yours is obviously defective and 
who knows what else is wrong.

Hope this is Helpful --- Tom