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From: hoyt@laura.alf.dec.com (Kurt Hoyt)
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Subject: Re: Ultrix 3.1C /usr/bin/pswrap -- what is it?
Message-ID: <1990Aug27.142551.12208@decatl.dec.com>
Date: 27 Aug 90 14:25:51 GMT
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In article <1990Aug25.212335.12478@watcgl.waterloo.edu>, idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ian! D. Allen [CGL]) writes:
> strings /usr/bin/pswrap includes:

> No man page seen in /usr/etc/subsets/*.inv; what is this?  It comes in
> the X11 Development subset.

From the manual:

"The pswrap translator provides a natural way for a developer or toolkit
implementor to compose a package of C-callable procedures that send PostScript
language code to the PostScript interpreter. These C-Callabel procedures are
known as wrapped procedures or wraps."
   -- "Display PostScript pswrap Reference Manual", DEC order no. AA-PAJTA-TE

These wraps are PostScript code which has been given a C wrapper. You write
PostScript, run pswrap, and you can then call that PostScript code from C.

PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.

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