[comp.windows.x] xps availability

jgm@k.gp.cs.cmu.edu (John Myers) (12/14/88)

Crispin Goswell's PostScript interpreter is available from
the various comp.sources.unix archives.  The ones I know of are:

j.cc.purdue.edu, news/comp/sources/unix/volume12, v12i050.Z through v12i067.Z

uunet.uu.net, comp.sources.unix/volume12/postscript, part01.Z through part18.Z

There are a number of bug fixes and improvements available via
anonymous ftp to z.andrew.cmu.edu (128.2.30.8) in the subdirectory
psdiffs.  The patches should be applied to an unpacked virgin
distribution.  READ THE INSTRUCTIONS AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH FILE
BEFORE APPLYING THEM WITH PATCH.

These patches do not include the change to make it compile on an RT.
I refuse to put kludges for broken compilers into my copy of the
source.


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tom@WORK8.ICASE.EDU (Tom Crockett) (12/28/88)

	Crispin Goswell's PostScript interpreter is available from
	the various comp.sources.unix archives.

	There are a number of bug fixes and improvements available via
	anonymous ftp to z.andrew.cmu.edu ....

Thanks for posting the xps information.  I got the source from the archives,
applied the CMU patches, and built "xps" without a hitch.  And it
mostly works.  However, there is one very annoying problem:  when I
type a "quit" after xps finishes displaying a file, my X server sometimes
terminates.  I have seen this occur with the tree.ps demo file, among others.
Neither the server nor xps leaves a core file around, so I can't really
tell what went wrong.  Has anyone else seen this behavior?  Is there a fix
available?

I am running X11R3 with fixes1-3 and the Purdue-speedups (but not Purdue+),
compiled with "cc -O" under SunOS 3.5.  The server is running under xdmshell
on a Sun 3/50, while xps is running remotely on a Sun 3/180.  


Tom Crockett

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jm36+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Gardiner Myers) (05/05/89)

Crispin Goswell wrote a PostScript interpreter which is freely
distributable (though not public domain) It is available from
the various comp.sources.unix archives.  The ones I know of are:

j.cc.purdue.edu, news/comp/sources/unix/volume12, v12i050.Z through v12i067.Z

uunet.uu.net, comp.sources.unix/volume12/postscript, part01.Z through part18.Z

There are a number of bug fixes and improvements available via
anonymous ftp to z.andrew.cmu.edu (128.2.30.8) in the subdirectory
psdiffs.  The patches should be applied to an unpacked virgin
distribution.  READ THE INSTRUCTIONS AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH FILE
BEFORE APPLYING THEM WITH PATCH.

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