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Subject: Re: what is /usr/local/bin/gsc ?
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Assuming it was installed from ports, if you have portupgrade installed
you could try
pkg_which /usr/local/bin/gsc

For me this gives
[11:59:40:/usr/home/jhary]
(jhary@prawn)$pkg_which /usr/local/bin/gsc
ghostscript-gpl-8.62_2

Ghostscript is a postscript interpreter which would make sense since
most printers talk postscript.


Vince



Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> Hi
> 
> What is /usr/local/bin/gsc ?
> 
> I run FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #2 on compaq armada laptop.
> 
> When I send a job for printing I see gsc process running:
> 
>   PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU COMMAND
> [skip]
> 99954 daemon        1 117    0 27244K 19000K RUN      0:05 30.08% gsc
> 
> % which gsc
> /usr/local/bin/gsc
> %
> 
> However, I cannot find any info on gsc.
> The latest I've found is from 5.2-release,
> some gsc(4) -- a device driver for a handy scanner.
> I doubt this is it.
> 
> Could somebody tell me what gsc is and what it does. 
> 
> many thanks
> anton
>