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- GNU Ghostscript 2.6.2 AmiWin port
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- This port requires:
-
- - AmiWin, a shareware X11R6 server ported to the amiga by Holger Kruse.
- You can find an evaluation version of AmiWin on Aminet. I strongly recommend
- to register your version of AmiWin, it's a great software.
-
- - An Amiga with at least a 68020 CPU and Kickstart 2.04 or higher.
-
- - Approx. 5 MBytes of hard disk space available.
-
- - The fifo.library and fifo-handler. You can find them on Aminet in the
- archive util/misc/fifolib374.lzh.
-
- - The APipe-Handler. You can find it on Aminet in the archive
- util/shell/APipe_37_7.lha
-
- I am including the sources of this port in a separate archive. They are ready
- to be compiled on the Amiga with SAS/C 6.56. In the lib directory of the src
- archive you will find a unix emulation link library for SAS/C 6.56. It was
- adapted from the one in the sas-unix-lib.lha archive on Aminet.
-
- In the bin directory of the src archive you can also find scc, a front-end to
- sc using a semi-unix syntax (it was adapted from the package cc.lha on Aminet).
- Finally in the include directory there are the includes needed by the unix
- emulation library.
-
- To recompile the sources you need the GNU make or have to adapt the Makefile
- for smake.
-
- Installation
- ------------
- Open a shell and unpack the archive "GS-AmiWin.lha" somewhere on your hard
- disk. This will create the directory "gs262" there. Let's assume that the full
- path to this directory is "Work:gs262". Now edit your "S:User-Startup" file,
- adding the following lines:
-
- Assign ghostscript: "Work:ghostscript"
- Path ghostscript:bin add
-
- Save the file back to disk and reboot your machine.
-
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- Running ghostscript
- -------------------
- Start AmiWin and, in a shell, type "gs" and press return. The shell window
- should display the following text:
-
- Initializing...
-
- Switch to the AmiWin screen, position the ghostscript window and then return
- to the Workbench screen. Now you should see:
-
- Initializing... done.
- Ghostscript 2.6.2 (4/19/95)
- Copyright (C) 1990-1995 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.
- All rights reserved.
- Ghostscript comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details.
- GS>
-
- At the command prompt, enter "(ghostscript:examples/golfer.ps) run" and
- press return. When rendering is finished, the shell window will display the
- following text:
-
- >>showpage, press <return> to continue<<
-
- Press return to erase the contents of the ghostscript window on the AmiWin
- screen and to continue. The interpreter will be in interactive mode again,
- enter "quit" and press return to end this session.
-
- For more information refer to the documentation files in the "ghostscript:doc"
- directory.
-
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- About this port
- ----------------
- This port is based on Ghostscript 2.6.2. It was implemented using SAS/C 6.56.
- Please, refer to the file "COPYING" for copying and licensing information.
- The use of ghostscript is not very confortable (you have to switch between
- screens etc.). It is really intended to be used in conjuction with ghostview,
- a nice front end which is easily driven with the mouse. Have a look for the
- archive Ghostview-AmiWin.lha on Aminet.
-
- Enrico Forestieri
-
- Email: enrico@com.unipr.it
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