Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/02/24/08:36:02
> >
> > Is it not true that you need a Postscript cartridge in order
> > to run off Postscript files on an HP Laserjet printer? If you
> > do not have one, you are out of luck.
> >
> Yep.
>
> > The problem of having documentation in readable form is not an
> > inconsequential problem. It would seem to me that some of
> > the following would be useful --
> > (a) ASCII text versions of the documentation
> > (b) PostScript interpreter to run off Postscript documentation
> > on the more humble printers that do not have built in Postscript.
> > (Is this not what Ghostscript is supposed to do? If so, where
> > do you get a version that runs on an MS-DOS machine?)
>
> Ghostview for windows is best, as its easier to use than Ghostscript.
> You can get it from simtel20, in the directory postscrp.
>
> > (c) Readily available Tex -- (Where does one get EmTex?)
>
> In the UK, try ftp.tex.ac.uk/pub/archive. In the US I think you can
> get emTeX from sun.soe.clarkson.edu/pub/tex, use archie for more a more
> suitable site.
>
> > (d) Documentation in the file format of a generally used word
> > processor (Word for Windows, Word Perfect, Ami Pro?)
> >
> > On the one hand, I am aware that gnu-djgpp for ms-dos is a
> > UN*X oriented port of the gnu compiler, but it is to be run
> > on ms-dos machines on which users can be expected to have a
> > normal complement of MS-DOS/Windows tools and applications.
> >
Guy come on. Take the whole thing and not only one. Try out emTeX and
dvips and dviwin and Ghostscript/Ghostview and Gnuplot and ...
They are all very good and they are FREE! You will be excited!
> Come on ! The guys at GNU and DJ etc provide these things for FREE. If
> you're not happy then you could always lend a hand .... or go and pay
> for exactly what you want. The choice is yours.
>
> >
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> >
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