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Date:      Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:03:48 +0400
From:      Yuri Pankov <y.pankov@irbisnet.ru>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: what is /usr/local/bin/gsc ?
Message-ID:  <4843D394.7050607@irbisnet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20080602105347.GA175@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk>
References:  <20080602105347.GA175@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk>

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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
> %

First, check if there's manpage with description for gsc :-) You can 
also check which package installed that file:
pkg_info -W /usr/local/bin/gsc
(and as you mentioned printing, I'd think it was installed by 
ghostscript package) and follow the URL in pkg-descr.

> 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
> 


HTH,
Yuri



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