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- From: dongray@GENRAD.COM (Derek Dongray)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: CDA-Viewer mystery
- Message-ID: <9301251934.AA12008@genrad.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 19:34:09 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- > Hi,
- >
- > I have a problem with the MOTIF-1.0A-CDA-VIEWER.
- > I use that tool to display ps-files. If I log into the consol, everything works,
- > but if I use an X-Terminal I can't select the conversion PS, because there is
- > no PS menu-item.
- >
- > Has someone seen this, too?
- >
- > Regards
- > Eberhard Heuser-Hofmann
- > Univ.Konstanz
- > Germany
-
- The ability to display postscript is a function of the X-server. The console
- server has code to interpret postscript, the X-terminal doesn't.
-
- Now why DEC didn't makethe CDA viewer interpret the postscript itself is
- another question!
-
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