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From: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt)
Subject: Re: Ghostscript binaries for 386bsd/X386 ....
Message-ID: <1992Nov3.122918.18726@autelca.ascom.ch>
Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, Guemligen, Switzerland
References: <1992Oct28.030050.16822@umr.edu> <1992Nov2.081330.11273@autelca.ascom.ch> <1d3um2INN53q@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1992 12:29:18 GMT
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brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy) writes:

>In <1992Nov2.081330.11273@autelca.ascom.ch> nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt) writes:
>>gs241 as distributed with 386bsd does not include support for X, of course.
>>However, I compiled it and it seems to work OK for me and the XFree86
>>monoserver. I didn't test it, yet, with the colour server. But I think
>>that is not much difference for gs241.

>Everyone keeps talking about the gs241 that is distributed with 386bsd.
>Can anyone tell me where this is?  I thought I had a complete distribution,
>but I can't find it anywhere.
It's in the etc01 distribution. I am not sure, but I think I had to compile
it.
I installed the src01, bin01 and the etc01 distribution. There are some nice
things in the etc01 distribution (thank you to the people porting this software
to 386BSD - whoever it did):
	zsh-2.2 (IMHO: it's far better than csh, I can tell you),
	less-177
	gs 2.4.1
	cvs (front-end to RCS),
	kermit-5a (even the binaries),
	etc.

For me it was worth installing and compiling the zsh, at least.
It seems to work fine on my system at home, incl. job-control, history,
command-line editing, etc.

Norbert Bladt.
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