david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) (05/06/89)
At least that I've seen so far ..
It's that Postscript Previewer. It works as well as can be expected
for previewing troff. That is, small stuff that's perfectly readable
on the laser printer just smudges together, as you'd expect since there's
wildly differing resolutions.
But otherwise it works well
EXCEPT
that it took about a minute to load enough program in to display
that annoying opening screen giving copyright credits to Adobe.
Then another minute to load in my file.
Fortunately that was only for the initial load. (And I might be
exaggerating the minute, but not by much.)
Once the program was in memory. Rather, once the program took up
all my memory & swap space in the workstation. I could load new files
at a snap. It was even kinda fun having a window over to our sequent
and generating the postscript file over there -- troff runs real quick
on the sequent. Then pop to dxpsview to look at it.
Something was pointed out to me today. That all those DICwindows programs
are actually one file with links.
Guys ... it would be a REALLY BIG WIN if the system had sharable libraries.
You wouldn't have to have this one HUGE program just so that they can
share the large sections of code they require. Instead you set up
the library somewhere -- and probably arrange so that it's loaded into
memory at boot time or nearly thereafter. Then later each individual
program is much smaller and loads much quicker & etc.
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