Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: GhostScript executable for PCs ? Message-ID: Date: 25 May 89 19:50:20 GMT References: <2297UD092096@NDSUVM1> <434.247B5B38@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Postdam NY Lines: 35 In-reply-to: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us's message of 25 May 89 01:23:42 GMT In article <434.247B5B38@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes: In article <2297UD092096@NDSUVM1>, UD092096@NDSUVM1.BITNET writes: >I've seen people ask this question before, but have never seen an answer. >Is an executable version for IBM-PC type machines available for anonymous >ftp somewhere? I know where to get the source code, but don't have a >Turbo-C compiler. I, on the other hand, do have a Turbo C compiler, but do not know where to find the source code. If it turns out that I can use it, and it's not overly large (ftp'ing anything over about 500K gets to be a real drag when it's your personal machine that's tied up, and it's done at 2400 baud), and not too much work is required to make it compile under TC2.0, I might consider compiling it. Could someone please let me know where it is? (Mailed replies will be fine...) What exactly is GhostScript? From what I've heard, it's some sort of Postscript clone. Right. What printers can it handle? None, at the moment. What, exactly, does it DO? Lets you preview PostScript output on your EGA screen. Do you have to feed it an on-disk file? Yes. Can you send it the printer output of a program through a pipe? No, but relatively straightforward C program would make it do that. Most importantly, will it work with my Star NX-10 printer? As above, no. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) I'm a right-to-lifer -- everyone has a right to earn a living sufficient to feed himself and his family.