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Re: DOS version of ghostscript

#102
From: Ilya Zakharevich
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 06:49
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Hello, netters!

	This is a reminder that the supplied version of the MSDOS Ghostscript
does not supports bgi drivers, and the supplied version of gs386 does not
support either the vesa (SVGA) drivers. 

	That means that a) the gs386 CANNOT work with SVGA at all;
			b) the gs cannot be used with SVGA since the calling
				syntax is not included in documentation (if it 
				is included, it cannot be found at least).

Yes, I RTFM.

	So I humbly suggest to the author of this excellent software to give
a chance to the user and include those drivers that is legally and technically
possible in the official distribution. A hint: While it is not deadly difficult
to compile gs, as well as I know 386-mode compilers usually reserve the 
copywrite of the compiled executables, so I cannot expect some kind user will
post a compiled by him version.

	A final note: the vesa version of gs kills my computer with the 
supplied vesa driver (et4000). However, the driver from prodesigner works(my 
card isnot Prodesigner though). And gs -sDEVICE=vesa -g1024x768 does not... 

	Best regards, Ilya
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From: ilya@bourbaki.mit.edu (Ilya Zakharevich)
Subject: Re: DOS version of ghostscript
Message-ID: <1992Apr11.064954.3604@galois.mit.edu>
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Organization: MIT Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA
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Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 06:49:54 GMT
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