From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 27 11:23:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA07493 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 11:23:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA07437 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 11:23:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA10793; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 11:23:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 11:23:25 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Drew Derbyshire cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why all the Ghostscript versions in ports? In-Reply-To: <199802270419.XAA27259@pandora.hh.kew.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Drew Derbyshire wrote: > I just went to install Hylafax, which needs (well, it needs ALOT, > but that's neither here nor there.) Anyway, it seems I need to > install ghostscript, and browsing my trusty 2.2.5 CD-ROM I see not > one or two but four versions of ghostscript. What gives? The major versions listed have different quirks. Anything >3 is made by Alaadin. Use the latest; the fonts look really good. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message