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ghostscript.tar.Z is now in /u/emacs on prep.

			hack

[ a little more background.	

  To: Sun-Spots@Rice.edu
  Date:    Thu, 8 Sep 88 14:22:59 PDT
  From:     (Peter Deutsch)
  Subject: PostScript GNUware

  GhostScript, a GNU project implementation of a language and graphics
  library with a remarkable similarity to PostScript(tm), will be released
  by the Free Software Foundation as soon as one or two pieces of paper get
  signed.

  GhostScript consists of a language interpreter for a language that is
  essentially identical to PostScript, and a graphics library that provides
  C-callable routines for all the graphics capabilities of PostScript, so
  you can have the graphics without the language if you prefer.  The
  interpreter is implemented on top of the graphics library.

  GhostScript currently has two device drivers: one for the EGA, which works
  quite well, and one for X11, which is seriously brain-damaged because the
  machine on which it was written had a badly buggy X server.  (I hope
  someone will write a good X11 driver.)

  It should be trivial to write a PostScript previewer using GhostScript by
  changing the top level of the interpreter a little.

  GhostScript is covered by the same license as GNU Emacs, gcc, etc.
  Roughly speaking, anyone can have it as long as they agree not to charge
  (beyond reproduction costs) for redistributing it, and agree to always
  redistribute it in source form.  Read the GNU Standard License for the
  full and accurate story.

  L. Peter Deutsch
  dba Aladdin Enterprises
  P. O. box 60264
  Palo Alto, CA 94306
  (no e-mail address for GhostScript-related correspondence yet,
  please don't use deutsch@parcplace.com -- I'll probably get an
  account on portal)

enjoy -len
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