Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!ICASE.EDU!tom From: tom@ICASE.EDU (Tom Crockett) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: PostScript Previewer -- A Suggestion Message-ID: Date: 6 Jun 89 15:22:26 GMT References: <8906061337.AA03673@expire.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 17 > *Excerpts from xpert: 6-Jun-89 Re: PostScript Previewer --..* > *rws@expo.lcs.mit.edu (637)* > Producing specific > applications to meet market demand has never been a goal; that's what > ISVs are for. 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. It can be argued that all of these are applications and are in some sense extraneous to the window system itself. Presumably they were included because they were deemed to be useful. Evidently a lot of people think a PostScript previewer would be useful as well, so I though I'd at least suggest it. I gather that the answer is "probably not"? It doesn't have to go into the core distribution either. It could just as well go into contrib.