Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: PostScript Interpreter for the PC Message-ID: Date: 20 Jan 89 03:06:59 GMT References: <8904@mhuxu.UUCP> <2310@titan.camcon.co.uk> <9147@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Postdam NY Lines: 28 In-reply-to: tim@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu's message of 18 Jan 89 23:08:17 GMT In article <9147@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> tim@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Timothy L. Kay) writes: The Free Software Foundation has a PostScript clone called GhostScript which they are giving away. (It is free for those with access to the ARPAnet, and for a distribution fee if they to send you a tape.) I know nothing about it. Perhaps somebody wants to port it to the PC. It already runs under MS-DOS driving the EGA. Peter L. Deutsch (yes, that Peter L. Deutsch) wrote it using Turbo C 1.5. It doesn't compile under TC 2.0 because Borland changed the size of the difference between two far pointers from an int to a long. He has a really cute trick for compiling under Unix and MS-LOSS. Take a look at the makefile to see it. It goes like this: (DOS) OBJ = obj EXE = .exe (Unix) OBJ = o EXE = Try to guess what he does with these definitions. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) "I saved the whales!" - Rebecca L. Nelson, 3.5 years old, on receiving her Christmas present of a whale "adoption" certificate. Bless her liberal heart.