Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 07:47:05 -0500 From: "Larry S. Marso" <lsmarso@panix.com> To: mark thompson <thompson@squirrel.tgsoft.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why so many ghostscript Message-ID: <19980206074705.60996@panix.com> In-Reply-To: <19980206052332.9601.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com>; from mark thompson on Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 05:23:32AM -0000 References: <19980206052332.9601.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com>
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Is that confirmed? That ghostscript 5.0, for example, won't work with hylafax? I'm a happy user of 5.0 together with my LaTeX installation. If it's necessary to install 2.6.2, can it be installed alongside 5.0? Or does it over-write it? -- Larry S. Marso lsmarso@panix.com On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 05:23:32AM -0000, mark thompson wrote: > Why are there three versions of ghostscript in the ports? In particular, > is this because nobody wants to delete 2.6.2 and re-verify those things > (like hylafax) that depend on it - or - are people nervous that 4.03 is > not necessarilly an improvement in all cases? > > I ask because i have had to hack a thing or two in 2.6.2 (notably to > allow my windows machine to print via samba). At this point, i am > thinking that maybe it is time for me to upgrade (but i wouldn't want to > break hylafax). Sigh. > > -mark
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