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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Damn Ghostscript! ;)
Date: 19 Jul 1994 19:21:32 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  Montana
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In article <30gul7$rn6@venus.mcs.com>, Daniel Leeds <dleeds@MCS.COM> wrote:
>
>IS there any way to use ghostscript without X windows?  I have a cheap 9 
>pin printer I would like to print postscript docs with and figured gs 
>would do the trick.  No.  Package binary is linked to X.

Since that is the common configuration that folks desire, we provide it.

> FIne, I get the 
> source.  No.  Only documents how to use and make it to function with X.

Where'd you get it?  The docs on the original packages explain how to
compile it w/out X last time I looked.


Nate
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