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From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Subject: New port: ghostscript
Approved: peter@taronga.com
Sender: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: FreeBSD Project
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Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 00:50:02 GMT
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A port of ghostscript is now available.  You can get it from

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/print/ghostscript.tar.gz (source)
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/packages/print/ghostscript.tgz (binary)

and the corresponding directories on mirror sites.

This fixes a security hole present in ghostscript versions 2.6 and 2.6.1.

P.S. Note that the "source" above is actually the ports skeleton only;
     when you extract it on your machine (preferably into
     /usr/ports/print/ghostscript and type "make", it will automatically
     fetch the original source and builds the program.  Try "make fetch-list"
     if you are not IP connected to obtain a list of files you need to
     fetch.