Date:	Tue, 22 Mar 94 12:57:59 JST
From:	Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Ghostscript port

Re the Tim Brosnan port of Ghostscript 2.6.1, it's available on SIMTEL
mirrors in the dvx (or maybe it's dv_x) subdirectory of .../msdos.  I
think you need to get the source from a GNU mirror.
    It is rumored that there will be a public release of Ghostscript
3.0 before summer; this will include several major improvements,
including incremental garbage collection and "full" level 2 Postscript
support.  (These are more or less working in the betas I've been
testing, so I consider the rumor credible.)
    PREP.AI.MIT.EDU is still not the recommended place to go for GNU
software I believe; they prefer that you use one of the mirrors.
(They'd like to reserve the bandwidth for the mirrors to download the
software.)  WUARCHIVE.WUSTL.EDU::(/pub)?/systems(/unix)?/gnu (I forget
the exact path) is a well-known US mirror; GATEKEEPER.DEC.COM and
FTP.UU.NET both probably mirror GNU; and I'm pretty sure for Europe
that Garbo mirrors prep.  Sorry about lack of paths for those mirrors.
    I believe that Ghostview for Windows can also be made to work
under DJGPP.  Even if not, you can presumably use the DJGPP-compiled
version of Ghostscript with the distributed binary of Ghostview for
Windows.  As an anti-Windoze fanatic, I refuse to look up the location
of Ghostview for Windows which I don't remember offhand.  However, the
Ghostscript docs (I think README.DOC, but there are about 15 of them,
the next most likely are INSTALL.DOC and USER.DOC) have pointers to
Ghostview (for X11), Ghostview for Windows, and one other GUI-oriented
front end to Ghostscript.
    --Steve

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