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From: tom@WORK8.ICASE.EDU (Tom Crockett)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XPS availability
Message-ID: <8812281519.AA00194@work8.icase.edu>
Date: 28 Dec 88 15:19:57 GMT
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	Crispin Goswell's PostScript interpreter is available from
	the various comp.sources.unix archives.

	There are a number of bug fixes and improvements available via
	anonymous ftp to z.andrew.cmu.edu ....

Thanks for posting the xps information.  I got the source from the archives,
applied the CMU patches, and built "xps" without a hitch.  And it
mostly works.  However, there is one very annoying problem:  when I
type a "quit" after xps finishes displaying a file, my X server sometimes
terminates.  I have seen this occur with the tree.ps demo file, among others.
Neither the server nor xps leaves a core file around, so I can't really
tell what went wrong.  Has anyone else seen this behavior?  Is there a fix
available?

I am running X11R3 with fixes1-3 and the Purdue-speedups (but not Purdue+),
compiled with "cc -O" under SunOS 3.5.  The server is running under xdmshell
on a Sun 3/50, while xps is running remotely on a Sun 3/180.  


Tom Crockett

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