[Info-vax] Ghostscript update for VMS

[Mark Berryman]

On 7/13/11 7:29 AM, Edgar wrote:
> On Jul 5, 2:00 pm, Mark Berryman<m... at theberrymans.com>  wrote:
>> On 7/4/11 11:01 AM, Mark Berryman wrote:>  Is anyone still using ghostscript?  I have a build of 9.02 I'd like to
>>> have a couple of folks try out. I am also wondering if anyone still
>>> wants this done as a PCSI kit or if a simple ZIP of the necessary files
>>> (which are fewer in number than they were before) is sufficient.
>>
>>   >  [snip]
>>
>> Ok.  I need to put together an actual download page on my web server
>> but, for now, a copy of this distribution can be found from the same
>> place where I make my PHP kits available.  You can download this file athttp://www.theberrymans.com/php_kits/ghostscript_9_2.zip
>>
>> Note that this is not a source kit.  It simply contains everything you
>> need to run Ghostscript on VMS.
>>
>> Comments regarding the build or the distribution kit are welcome and
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Mark Berryman
>>
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>
> Hi Mark.  A few weeks ago I posted in ITRC asking whether anyone was
> working on this.   I didn't get a response so I started doing it.  I
> meant to resubmit the sources back to gnu.  I got sidetracked though
> because one of my co-workers went on extended medical leave and I had
> to pick up his work.  Thanks for doing this, but I think it would be
> great to update the sources and resubmit as they've been talking about
> dropping support for OpenVMS.

No problem.  If you or Jouk wants to contact me offline, we can see what 
it would take to get the changes submitted.  All told, I made changes to 
less than 20 files to get this to work.

Mark Berryman

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