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- From: jf@edv6000.tuwien.ac.at (Josef Fritscher)
- Subject: Re: PS Viewer
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.093018.11028@email.tuwien.ac.at>
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- References: <18l48fINNitr@spool.mu.edu> <1992Sep10.080934.3339@meteor.wisc.edu> <92254.121256P88036@BARILVM.BITNET>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 09:30:18 GMT
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- In article <92254.121256P88036@BARILVM.BITNET>, Ephraim Vider <P88036@BARILVM.BITNET> writes:
- |> In article <1992Sep10.080934.3339@meteor.wisc.edu>, mjo@snclib.snc.edu (Mike
- |> O'Connor) says:
- |>I'm sure that someone's filled his mailbox with "Ghostscript" and
- |> >"Ghostview" -- if nothing else, I've mailed him. What I wonder is
- |> >why IBM ships Display Postscript and yet doesn't ship a tool to
- |> >*view* Postscript! DEC and Sun certainly don't have this problem.
- |> >Any comments?
- |> >
- |>
- |> But they do.
- |> AIX 3.2 has xpreview which can display postscript files if the server
- |> has the DPS extension.
- |>
- |> It took them a little time, but still, better late...
- |>
- |> Ephraim
- |>
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- yes, but xpreview claims to work only on nroff files and as I tried it out
- it fails on man pages.
-
- -Joe
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