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- This is version 3.0 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 have been added.
-
-
- Some notes on the distribution:
-
- Installation is done by modifying and executing Makefile included
- in this distribution. You must give a value to two variables:
- - HEADER_PS a2ps will search there the file header.ps at execution
- time.
- - compiler compiler name, actually one of BSD, SYSV, ANSIC. Turbo
- C and Microsoft C are considered ANSIC compilers.
- You could also give your own values to following variables:
- a) Physical page dimension. Dimensions must be real constants,
- specifying inch values.
- - HEIGHT sheet height
- - WIDTH sheet width
- Default values correspond to A4 format (11.64 x 8.27). In USA, you use
- use in general 11.0 x 8.5.
- b) Total lateral (left+right) or vertical (top+bottom) margins. It must
- be also a real constant, specifying inchs (by default 1.2).
- - MARGIN
- c) Directory separator (by default '/')
- - DIR_SEP char
-
- a2ps has been successfully ported to Unix 4.3BSD, Unix SystemV and
- MSDOS.
-
-
- The a2ps distribution consists of the following files:
-
- README This message
- Makefile
- a2ps.c a2ps source
- a2ps.1 a troff manual (man file)
- header.ps postcript header used by a2ps
-
- Decide where you want to keep these files and move it there.
- Edit "Makefile" and change the definition of HEADER_PS (to
- reflect the full pathname of header.ps) and of compiler name.
- To make a2ps do:
-
- make a2ps
-
- To install it, do:
-
- make install
-
- Format the manual entry using
-
- nroff -man a2ps.1
-
-
- Please send problems and feedback to:
-
- miguel@imag.fr or miguel@imag.UUCP (uunet.uu.net!imag!miguel)
-
- Miguel SANTANA
- LGI
- IMAG-Campus
- BP 53X
- 38041 Grenoble Cedex
-