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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!ncar!music.scd.ucar.edu!tparker
  3. From: tparker@music.scd.ucar.edu (Tom Parker)
  4. Subject: Re: Postscript files
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug27.151649.4343@ncar.ucar.edu>
  6. Sender: news@ncar.ucar.edu (USENET Maintenance)
  7. Organization: Scientific Computing Divison/NCAR Boulder, CO
  8. References: <66988@hydra.gatech.EDU>
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  10. Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 15:16:49 GMT
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  13. In article <66988@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt7237a@prism.gatech.EDU (Matt Le Blanc) writes:
  14. >Is there any UNIX command that will convert a postscript file to
  15. >a normal text file?  I would like to preview the postscript files
  16. >before printing them.  Thanks for any replies.
  17. >                        Matt Le Blanc
  18.  
  19.  
  20. We use a nice, free-ware command called 'ghostscript' that previews ps files.
  21.  
  22. Don't know where we got it, but you could probably find it in archie (the
  23. catalog of files at anonymous ftp sites).
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  28. | Tom Parker             |  National Center for Atmospheric Research |
  29. | tparker@ncar.ucar.edu  |  (303) 497-1227                           |
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