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From: rob@ASRCMV.ALBANY.EDU (Robert D. Seals)
Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
Subject: Does it work?
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Date: 15 Nov 88 12:31:04 GMT
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Subject: ghostscript


Hi there,

This 'ghostscript' thang looks like a really great idea. I have loaded
it onto my machine, a "PC". I think of myself as a reasonably decent C hack,
with lots o' Unix experience. I have not been able to get that thing to
compile. I have Turbo C v.1.5, just as the authors'. The makefile is
probably a major contributor to the problem. It is a mess, and it appears
to try to cater to both Unix and Borland 'make'. May I suggest that someday
someone make 2 different makefiles? 
This would be a really useful tool for me, since we have no Suns here, 
because I do a fair amount of PS coding that is painful without a previewer.
Unfortunately, it is thusfar unusable.

Thanks,
rob

PS. I first sent this to 'gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu' and it was returned to
me to send it to ghostscript-bug. What is the scoop over there? Is there
a list of places to address certain comments to? For gcc, g++, gdb, etc?
Is there any news group that addresses these issues? I have not seen
anything resembling 'gnu' in my newsrc...