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From: nbvs@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nicko van Someren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: GhostScript/GNU licenses
Keywords: Rant, 3MB down a 4800 baud line
Message-ID: <1991May13.104350.14330@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: 13 May 91 10:43:50 GMT
Reply-To: nbvs@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nicko van Someren)
Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK
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Well, I now have a copy of GhostScript.  Isn't it good?  What do you meen you
havn't got around to down loading it?  It can't be that big, it runs in a 200k
wimpslot!

What I am really saying is - if you post something very big, why not post one
archive for a minimal runnable set, on archive for, say, some extra fonts and
finally one archive for the source to keep the GNU people happy.  While you're
at it the source could be posted to comp.source.acorn which does not seem to
have had alot of traffic yet.  A minimal working set comes out as a 150k 
archive which would be much more in the range of most peoples phone bills!
O.K. so most of it was fonts but I think most of us could get away without
all of them.

Things like this should be Alan's job but I guess they only come with time.
While we're at it, I would have thought the it was Alan's job to make sure 
that binaries that got sent out could be run with existing C-Libs.

Anyway, rant over.  If fixes get sent can we just have some change files and
a new !RunImage, please.

Nicko



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