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Subject: Re: PostScript Previewer -- A Suggestion
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Date: 6 Jun 89 15:34:01 GMT
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    Presumably they were included because they were deemed to be useful.

The significant ones are there because the MIT staff couldn't be productive
without them; we maintain our own environment, and we ship what we maintain.
We are productive without a public PostScript previewer (and when we really
need one, we just use the one we purchased, on the machine it was bought for.)
Other core clients are low enough overhead to deal with.

    I gather that the answer is "probably not"?

We aren't going to develop one.  We are unlikely to be able to buy one.
If someone wants to donate one ...