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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript previewer for Sunview
Keywords: PostScript previewer SunOS 3.5 Sun 3/160 SunView
Message-ID: <1555@vidiot.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 91 06:36:11 GMT
References: <17707@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <1991Mar22.201949.19617@mtu.edu> <521@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout
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In article <521@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> henry@angel.Eng.Sun.COM (Henry McGilton) writes:
<And In article <1991Mar23.025010.17707@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>, brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
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<    *  You aren't going to like this answer, but move up to SunOS 4.1
<    *  and use the OpenWindows pageview PostScript previewer.  SunOS 3.5
<    *  is really out-of-date.
<I've been running 3.5 on my home 3/60 since December 1988.  Runs fine.
<Never crashes.  Have GhostScript running in SunView.  Works Great.

OK, GhostScript works under SunView.  I'll remember that.  But, personal
opinion node on, you will find that you are behind the times.  Unless there
is a reason that you can't move from 3.5 (the original poster asking the
question can't because of money, etc, or like my site on a couple of machines
due to the CAD or CAE software), you should move up to SunOS 4.1 and a version
of Xwindows, be it Sun's OpenLook or MIT's pure X11R4 code and the various
window managers that are around.  The Xwindow environment is SO much better
than SunView and more and more programs are being made for Xwindows.  You
can get many utilities right here off the net, and I have.  These same
utilities aren't available for SunView.

In your case, you probably don't have the funds to upgrade your home
system.  I'm in the same boat for the Unix that I have on my home PC.  I
don't have Xwindows running at home, not because of money, but because of
hard disk space to compile X11R4.  But, at work, all systems that can be
changed to SunOS 4.1 have been upgraded.  I wouldn't go back to SunView
again, even if you paid me (well, 6-digit numbers would do it :-).  Personal
opinion mode off.

But, I will keep in mind that GhostScript is working under SunView.
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