making inst distributions (was: Re: ghostscript)

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From: Thomas Driemeyer
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 11:58

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In article <1ifekrINNsfk@fangio.asd.sgi.com> rck@fangio.asd.sgi.com (Robert Keller) writes:
>    Preview PostScript without DPS! 
>
>    I've placed inst'able images of the Ghostview/Ghostscript PostScript
>    previewer on sgi.sgi.com (192.48.153.1) in ~ftp/sgi/ghost.

How about making the inst-ify programs available? Being able to create
distribution tapes that can be installed with "inst" would be a big win.

Even if that program is too ugly or too hard to use to be "user-rated",
I am sure a lot of people would like to have it anyway. SGI has made
available other unsupported programs, disclaimers are cheap. It can't
be much more arcane than that classic sendmail SGI ships, can it? :-)

Have you noticed that no two third-party programs have the same install
procedure? Life would be so much easier if everyone could simply use inst.

Thomas
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From: thomas@bitrot.in-berlin.de (Thomas Driemeyer)
Subject: making inst distributions (was: Re: ghostscript)
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