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From: ellis@unix.SRI.COM (Michael Ellis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Goswell's Postscript Interpreter
Message-ID: <30452@sri-unix.SRI.COM>
Date: 10 May 89 06:15:52 GMT
Reply-To: ellis@unix.sri.com (Michael Ellis)
Organization: SRI, Menlo Park, CA.
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    Has anyone been able to make Goswell's (1987) freeware postscript 
    interpreter do anything at all on a Sun4 running 4.0? Sample output:

    PS>1 1 +
    PS>undefined in operator exec
    stopped

    And that's an improvement from when I tried compiling it under Sys-4-3.2.
    At least I get an error message! Still, bombing out on such trivial input
    does not make me feel very positive, nor did having to make gratuitous
    source and makefile hacks to get it to load. Well, that's freeware for
    you. Who am I to complain? 

    Is Goswell's postscript *supposed* to run on SPARC architecture? Or am
    I wasting my time? Is there a newer version than his 1987 one? Do people
    know the answers to such questions?

-michael