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From: bstrong@sleepy.bmd.trw.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: VAX/VMS text-->PS filter
Summary: still looking, but I found a nice one
Message-ID: <1355.28180d99@sleepy.bmd.trw.com>
Date: 26 Apr 91 18:23:04 GMT
Reply-To: bstrong@oz.bmd.trw.com
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Hello again,

     I added a post just yesterday on getting a text-->PS filter for
a VAX/VMS system that would take a textfile in and output the PS version
to a new file.  I have found something that does seem to work quite well
(but I am still looking for others so please e-mail or post any suggestions).
I pulled down Miguel Santana's a2ps version 3.0 from comp.sources.misc and
put in on our VAX/VMS cluster (VMS 5.4).  I pulled out all the #IFDEF 
conditionals and kept only the ANSIC stuff, then changed my HEADER_PS
to be defined to a VMS directory (ie "disk3:[jdoe.a2ps]header.ps") and
it compiled great (VAX C 3.2).  Also, I added a "-Ofile" option to put output
to file (since VMS is not so nice at redirecting and piping output as
UNIX is - I also put the a2ps on our Sun 3/150 and it works wonderfully 
without any modifications).  It's a real nice program and I thank Miguel
for putting it out there.  I am still interested in any other programs
that are intended for VMS, but if none are suggested this one will work
just great I'm sure.