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From: bernie@umbc3.umbc.edu (Bernard J. Duffy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  psview: how much it offers and why we need TeX viewer??
Message-ID: <1991Jun3.172403.12734@umbc3.umbc.edu>
Date: 3 Jun 91 17:24:03 GMT
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In article <9105281659.AA08969@aero36.larc.nasa.gov> blbates@AERO36.LARC.NASA.GOV (Brent Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB) writes:
>
>  Psview doesn't work for most things.  However, IRIX 4.0 is SUPPOSE to
>have a working psview, so maybe then we can preview PostScript files.
>Until then if you want to preview TeX/LaTeX files you will have to get
>the special previewer from the info-iris archives.

     GNU's GhostScript (gs) works on the SGIs.  I find it to be an
excellent previewer.  It only works under X-windows and it seems to even
handle color ps files/scripts.

>
>  Brent L. Bates				Phone:(804) 864-2854
>  E-mail: blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero8.larc.nasa.gov

post news fodder.   Enjoy,  Bernie  (bernie@pinhead.acs.umbc.edu)

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