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From: corwin@cirrusl.UUCP (Paul Frommeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Public domain PS conversion programs
Summary: Where they are
Keywords: PDTEX, ps2lasrjet, Internet, SIMTEL20
Message-ID: <658@cirrusl.UUCP>
Date: 4 Feb 89 10:56:44 GMT
References: <500@tcsc3b2.UUCP>
Distribution: usa
Organization: CIRRUS LOGIC, Milpitas, CA
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Breaking my 3-year silence and sticking my nose into a newsgroup where it
probably doesn't belong...

The archive system SIMTEL-20 on the DDN (Internet, ARPAnet, what-have-you-net)
has about every public domain PostScript conversion program I know of, 
including such goodies as TeX2DVI, Ditroff2PS, PS<=>4014, etc. There's
also (or there was in Dec.) a rudimentary PS kernel. 

I'm inferring from the recent postings that a fair number of people don't
know about this.

Anyway, to get this stuff you either need a DDN connection or a friend who
has one (We aren't on the DDN... yet. :-). Use anonymous FTP to get the 
pieces you want. 

There's also a directory file somewhere that lists all the UNIX-C archives;
there's much more than just PostScript there.

Pitfalls: SIMTEL-20 is _busy_, and depending on where you are in the DDN
topology, you may want to batch your FTP requests for the wee hours.

Theoretically, this informational posting should elicit no replies. Just in
case, please direct any enquiries via e-mail; our net is congested enough as 
it is.