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From: dahe@cl.cam.ac.uk (David Elworthy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: GhostScript 2.2
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.152500.7325@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: 12 Jun 91 15:25:00 GMT
Reply-To: dahe@cl.cam.ac.uk (David Elworthy)
Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK
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I have just received the sources for the new release of GhostScript (version
2.2). I intend to start going over them in the next few days, and I will
probably do the new Archimedes release in a few weeks. There seems to be a lot
that has changed - in particular, I've been told that the font files, which
make up a large part of the release, are different.

What is the opinion about how I should do the release? I could send it out via
comp.binaries.acorn, but this will involve a lot of net traffic which may not
be of value to some net users. The alternative is that I just send it to
Newcastle, and let people pick it up if they specifically want it. Let me know
your opinions.

-- david elworthy

P.S. Here is an extract from the history file, as a taster of the changes.


   Copyright (C) 1989, 1990, 1991 Aladdin Enterprises.  All rights reserved.
   Distributed by Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This file is part of Ghostscript.

Ghostscript is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.  No author or distributor accepts responsibility
to anyone for the consequences of using it or for whether it serves any
particular purpose or works at all, unless he says so in writing.  Refer
to the Ghostscript General Public License for full details.

Everyone is granted permission to copy, modify and redistribute
Ghostscript, but only under the conditions described in the Ghostscript
General Public License.  A copy of this license is supposed to have been
given to you along with Ghostscript so you can know your rights and
responsibilities.  It should be in a file named COPYING.  Among other
things, the copyright notice and this notice must be preserved on all
copies.

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This file, history.doc, describes the changes in the various releases of
Ghostscript.

For an overview of Ghostscript and a list of the documentation files, see
README.

Version 2.2 (6/1/91)
===========

The purpose of this release is to add save/restore, and a few
miscellaneous Level 2 P*stScr*pt features such as undef.  It also includes
major improvements in graphics quality and in handling of high-resolution
printers.

(...)