Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!spdcc!dyer From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: PostScript Previewer -- A Suggestion Message-ID: <3454@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> Date: 6 Jun 89 17:45:10 GMT References: <8906061337.AA03673@expire.lcs.mit.edu> Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA Lines: 17 In article tom@ICASE.EDU (Tom Crockett) writes: >Well maybe so, but the core distribution does contain a mail reader, a text >editor, a terminal emulator, a man page browser, a load average monitor, and a >bunch of demos. Presumably they were included because they were deemed to >be useful. Presumably they had another advantage--someone already wrote them. The original bellyacher was complaining that neither ghostscript nor xps, two attempts at Postscript previewing, were as useful as they could be, implying that the X Consortium has some sort of responsibility to provide something better. Jesus. -- Steve Dyer dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer dyer@arktouros.mit.edu