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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: GhostScript executable for PCs ?
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Date: 26 May 89 13:59:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    May 26 08:59:00 1989


>Discussion about Ghostscript

Ghostscript is a partial Postscript clone. I have both the executable and
source fixed to compile under Microsoft C 5.1. I THINK (70% chance correct)
that it was from prep.ai.mit.edu.

In its present state Ghostscript is a toy. Mine works only to the 
screen. And, it is VERY SEVERELY crippled: it lacks save and restore.
I have NEVER gotten a canned postscript file (from another program)
to work. On the other hand, hand-written postscript examples do run,
though the output is fairly poor. It is best to consider this thing
a work-in-progress. Oh yes, it lacks fonts.

And, the code is a nightmare. It looks like the writer was brained-
washed into believing that the more layers of subroutine calls
you force a given functionality through, the better. Surprisingly,
it is quite fast on my Model 80, faster than YAP on the NeXt.

A new, fuller version is promised.

Doug McDonald