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The VMS port of Ghostview has been integrated into the base version as of v1.4,
which is now available. A copy of the announcement from gnu.announce, for the
benefit of those of you that don't get that group, appears after my signature.

I did the VMS port. It is tested with Ghostscript 2.4.1. I've gotten 2.5.2, but
haven't yet tested it with Ghostview. Any version of Ghostscript with Ghostview
support should work, as I made no modifications to Ghostscript to get this
working.

In addition to Ghostscript, you will also need George Carrette's stuff for
building Xaw and Xmu (Athena widget) shareable images (available from
vmsnet.sources archives, archive name "x11r5_athena_widget_support", according
to the recent monthly archive listing). This in turn requires: (a)
DECwindows/Motif (won't work on the old XUI stuff), and (b) the contents of the
directories mit/lib/Xmu and mit/lib/Xaw from the MIT X11R5 distribution.

I will be posting Ghostview to vmsnet.sources as soon as I have a chance to
build the latest version (incl. some non-VMS changes merged in by the author
after the VMS port was done) and test it with Ghostscript 2.5.2. At that time,
I'll also send the vms_share files to the author so that he can make those
available for FTP in addition to the tar files he has out there now. This should
all happen next week.
--
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In article <1992Oct13.041602.3685@cs.wisc.edu>, tim@appenzell.cs.wisc.edu (Tim
Theisen) writes:
>Ghostview 1.4 is available via anonymous ftp from:
>
>    ftp.cs.wisc.edu:/pub/X/ghostview-1.4.tar.Z
>    prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/ghostview-1.4.tar.Z
>
>    It will soon be propagating to the usual GNU distribution points:
>
>	Japan: ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp, utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp:ftpsync/prep
>	Australia: archie.au:gnu
>	Europe: src.doc.ic.ac.uk:gnu, ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de,
>	  ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de:pub/gnu,
>          nic.funet.fi:pub/gnu, ugle.unit.no, isy.liu.se,
>	  ftp.stacken.kth.se, sunic.sunet.se, ftp.win.tue.nl,
>	  ftp.diku.dk, ftp.eunet.ch, archive.eu.net
>	United States: wuarchive.wustl.edu ftp.cs.widener.edu,
>	  uxc.cso.uiuc.edu, col.hp.com, gatekeeper.dec.com:pub/GNU,
>	  ftp.uu.net:packages/gnu
>
>	For information on how to order GNU software on tape, check
>	the file etc/DISTRIB in the GNU Emacs distribution, or e-mail
>	a request to:	gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu
>
>Ghostview is an X11 user interface for the ghostscript PostScript
>interpreter.  It runs on a wide variety of Unix systems.  As of
>this release, it also runs on VMS.
>
>Other than VMS support, no new features are included in this release.
>
>Here is a quick summary of the major changes:
>
>- Ghostview now runs on VMS.
>- Ghostview sends PostScript to the ghostscript interpreter in a much
>  more efficient manner.
>- The DSC comment scanner has be revised to detect figures that are
>  included without being protected by %%Begin(End)Document comments.
>- Ghostview now properly destroys popup zoom windows and kills the
>  associated interpreter.
>- Ghostview automatically adjusts to not being able to allocate the
>  backing pixmap.
>
>For more details, see the HISTORY file.
>
>For people that have difficulty building ghostview, I have placed executables
>from several architectures in the ftp.cs.wisc.edu:/pub/X/ghostview-exe
>directory.
>
>..Tim
>
>          Tim Theisen           Systems Programmer
>Internet: tim@cs.wisc.edu       Department of Computer Sciences
>    UUCP: uwvax!tim             University of Wisconsin-Madison
>   Phone: (608)262-0438         1210 West Dayton Street
>     FAX: (608)262-9777         Madison, WI   53706
>