Category : Miscellaneous Language Source Code
Archive   : PSTSCDOC.ZIP
Filename : INSTALL

 
Output of file : INSTALL contained in archive : PSTSCDOC.ZIP

Note that is necessary to run a shell with job-control (e.g. csh) on
the sun3 version when using PS, because of process-group problems with
suntools. It is also difficult to alter the window shape when PS is
doing output on suns. If the postscript/viewer pair are used, these
problems are not encountered, but it runs more slowly.

To try it out, type the following:
$ POSTSCRIPTLIB=/postscript
$ export POSTSCRIPTLIB
$ PS -c 'A4 (demos/wow) lib run'
$

The "showpage" operator expects a carriage return before it erases the
page and allows output to continue (or in this case for PS to
terminate). More generally, use:

$ PS -c A4 [ files .... ]
$

The A4 command is shorthand for a framedevice command (see the
postscript reference manual) to create an A4 sized window. It is
supposed to be actual size, except on suns, where the screen is not big
enough (!)

It also works on the perq, but much more slowly.

If PostScript is not to be fully installed, the environment variable
POSTSCRIPTLIB may be set to the pathname of /usr/lib/postscript.
Alternatively, config.c has a variable called default_library[], which
may be changed to point somewhere else.

The tape contains:

INSTALLATION which you are reading

source - complete sources

postscript - various files the interpreter needs to run.
/font - font descriptors
/fonts - font data
hershey fonts (yuk) all we have available at present,
however there are instructions on how to add fonts in
the file "adding-fonts".
/psrc - initialisation file ('rc' file).
/cache - disk cache of popular font sizes
/font-map - mapping from postscript names to names in font
/demos - demos programs other than those in the cookbook

doc - documents of interest to people installing postscript, particularly
postscript.1 - manual entry for postscript


  3 Responses to “Category : Miscellaneous Language Source Code
Archive   : PSTSCDOC.ZIP
Filename : INSTALL
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  1. Daniel says:
    January 27, 2013 at 3:59 pm

    Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!

  2. Joshie says:
    March 18, 2014 at 4:57 pm

    This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.

  3. DiskingRound says:
    January 14, 2015 at 10:57 pm

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