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RELEASE NOTES FOR PSPORT
This is a utility of the 'one dumb job' variety. It does one job, and
does it fast and with minimal hoorah.
PSPort is SYSTEM 7 ONLY. Its only interface is Drag and Drop, so you
cannot use it with earlier Systems. If you double-click on it from a
System 6 machine, you will get an error message and the software will
quit gracefully.
PSPort does this: it filters PostScript files originating on MS-DOS
or Unix systems and converts them so that they can be downloaded
from Apple Macintosh computers. The conversions are these:
Control-D (ASCII 4) is thrown away.
Control-Z (ASCII 26) is thrown away.
CR (ASCII 13) is passed unstranslated.
LF (ASCII 10) is thrown away _if_ it follows a CR. If not,
it is converted to a CR.
That's it. PSPort has been tested to work on ASCII-encoded
MS-DOS-originated PostScript files. I surmise it would be a
Real Bad Idea to use it on Binary-encoded PostScript files...
To use PSPort _with_ System 7, simply select the files you want to
filter and drag them on the program's icon or an alias of it. New
files will be created, and your original source files will remain
unaltered.
Greg Swann
9/16/92