jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu (03/19/91)
In article <1991Mar18.162109.40384@eagle.wesleyan.edu>, I wrote: > I have a program which will, in simple terms, convert ascii text to postscript. > It's not a driver; in fact I wrote it as a print filter on a sun. But I am sure > it would work very well on an amiga (nothing sun specific about it)... if > anyone else is interested, I'll compile it amigaside and send it to some FTP > site somewhere... simply sucks in standart input, converts to postscript, spits > out standard output. It has a few options with regards to font size and margins > and spacing (and only uses courier; i.e. does not even hope to deal with > proportionally spaced fonts). Any takers? OK, it is now on abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov in /incoming/amiga, called ascii2ps.lzh. Presently the archive contains source & documentation only. Basically I am a relatively novice C programmer, and I don't have a real C compiler on the Amiga, and each of the PD ones wouldn't make it work correctly for different reasons. (NorthC seems unable to deal with floating point numbers; it always prints them as "--x" (i.e. 2.14 shows up as --2.14) which is fine, as long as it deals with them correctly internally.. but tests show it doesn't, i.e. it doesn't agree that --2 > .25. So essentially with NorthC the program works fine but none of the command line options work). PDC, on the other hand, doesn't create a valid 68k assembly language file for it. When I try to link it has some unknown symbol. I am not in the mood to figure out what it's talking about, so I will let you all compile it for yourselves. I'll buy Lattice as soon as I get some lettuce (what a sense of humor! :-) Anyway, it isn't the greatest code in the world by a long shot, but it works! Any comments are welcome... > -- > James A. Treworgy -- No quote here for insurance reasons -- > jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu jtreworgy@WESLEYAN.BITNET -- James A. Treworgy -- No quote here for insurance reasons -- jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu jtreworgy@WESLEYAN.BITNET