Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!giza.cis.ohio-state.edu!jgreely From: jgreely@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: ASCII -> Postscript Filter Message-ID: Date: 16 Dec 89 20:27:51 GMT References: <1252@corpane.UUCP> <1989Dec14.163841.16431@ericsson.se> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: J Greely Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 36 In-reply-to: howard@hasse.ericsson.se's message of 14 Dec 89 16:38:41 GMT In article <1989Dec14.163841.16431@ericsson.se> howard@hasse.ericsson.se (Howard Gayle) writes: [lengthy blurb deleted] Note that you also get, at no extra charge, a complete software installation philosophy! Wear it to parties! Amuse your friends! Frighten children! (not that it's a *bad* system, necessarily, but it's rather surprising to find such an amazing amount of extraneous stuff in a source posting) > WHAT TO GET FROM THE ARCHIVE >cz comp.sources.misc volume 8 issues 65-75, 77-78 ( 1 Oct 1989) > issue 97 (28 Oct 1989) >libhoward comp.sources.misc volume 8 issues 80-87 ( 1 Oct 1989) > issue 96 (28 Oct 1989) Also, you need: GNU Make, version 3.54 or higher, sets, from comp.sources.unix, vol 13, #68, LaTeX (if you want to understand the installation system), and, possibly, config2, from comp.sources.misc. vol 6, #96 Note that the supplied README file suggests that you *might* need GNU Make. Nonsense. You can't get anywhere without it, so don't even try. For people who are GNU-shy, the whole package is covered by the GNU Public License. Pretty hefty baggage for a text-to-PS converter, no? I might compile it to look at it, but I think I'll spare our users for a while. Enscript may lack the "gee-whiz" features, but it's simple to use (modulo the undocumented escape sequences), small, and produces decent PostScript. -- J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)