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From: rees@pisa.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
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Subject: Re: postscript preview
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Date: 31 May 91 21:03:55 GMT
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In article <1991May31.155935.6043@cs.cmu.edu>, pp0s+@EDRC.CMU.EDU (Peter Colin Piela) writes:

  Can some point me to an archive site where I can fetch a ready-to-go
  version of ghostscript for Apollo workstations?

Funny you should ask.  I just finished compiling ghostscript on my Apollo,
after getting disgusted with xps.  I made no changes to the source, only
configuration changes to the makefile.  I suggest using:

-DNOPRIVATE because there is a bug in the Apollo compiler/linker that makes
it want to allocate space for static globals in the data section.

-A cpu,3000 for the usual reasons (I wish they'd make this the default, or
at least let me change the default on a per-node basis).

-A nansi for the usual reasons (don't claim to be ansi if you're not!)

-BDSD4_2 which really means 4.2 or 4.3, as I discovered the hard way.

That's it.  Works pretty well, even on the Interleaf output that made xps
barf.  But I can't get it to work on MS Word output -- anyone know how?

I would love to make a binary available to you, but the gnu license
prohibits me from doing so.  You can get ghostscript from the usual ftp
sites.  Mine is version 2.1.1 and I got it from wuarchive.wustl.edu .
I'll be glad to send makefile diffs if you want.