From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 14 13:29:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA23475 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 13:29:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horton.iaces.com ([204.147.87.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA23470 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 13:29:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA00286; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 15:29:11 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199610142029.PAA00286@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: ps To: bogusz@lib.amu.edu.pl (Bogusz Jelinski) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 15:29:11 -0500 (CDT) Cc: hmmm@alaska.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from Bogusz Jelinski at "Oct 14, 96 07:10:19 pm" X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Bogusz Jelinski said: > > > On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, hmmm wrote: > > > is there a text mode .ps reader ? > > > > i checked all the search engines and other things, > > but can't find too much on PostScript. > > > > if not, any other way to read .ps files without > > Xwindow? > I have never used ghostscript in this way, but I think > it can display .ps files in VGA graphics (no need for Xserver) > I remember to experience ghostscript's try to display > a .ps but because of lack of memory on my graphics card > it wasn't successful :) I have used ghostscript on DOS to display in EGA or VGA. Never tried in unix though. Ghostscript can convert ps to many other formats (like non-postscript printers). -- Paul T. Root E/Mail: proot@iaces.com 200 S. 5th St. Suite 1100 PAG: +1 (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7370 Minneapolis, MN 55402 WRK: +1 (612) 663-1979 NIC: PTR FAX: +1 (612) 663-8030