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- This is version 4.0 of a2ps, a program to format an ascii file for
- printing in a postcript printer. As the copyright indicates, this
- distribution can be freely redistributed.
-
- Initial version was a shell program written by evan@csli (Evan
- Kirshenbaum). It was very slow and contained many bugs. A new version
- was written in C for improve speed execution and portability. Many
- new features and improvements were added by miguel@imag.fr, and posted
- in comp.sources.misc (Volume 10, Issue 73) as version 3.0.
-
- In version 4.0 many features were removed again. We can have separate
- programs that handle generic n-up printing, there is no need to do it
- in this program. (Such a program, called ``up'' and written in perl,
- was posted to comp.sources.misc (Vol 8, Issue 95) last year.) A2ps
- and its prologue file were enhanced to produce conforming PostScript,
- which is required by up, for instance.
-
- Installation should be straightforward...
-
- The a2ps distribution consists of the following files:
-
- README This message
- Makefile
- a2ps.c a2ps source
- a2ps.1 a troff manual (man file)
- a2ps.prologue postcript header used by a2ps
-
- Version of a2ps was posted to USENET by Miguel Santana:
-
- miguel@imag.fr or miguel@imag.UUCP (uunet.uu.net!imag!miguel)
-
- Version 4 was simplified and enhanced by Tor Lillqvist:
-
- tml@tik.vtt.fi
-