[Info-vax] Latest ghostscript now available for VMS

[Mark Berryman]

I have posted a zip file containing a port of Ghostscript 9.55.0 for 
Alpha, IA64, and X86_64 at
https://theberrymans.com/php_kits/ghostscript_9_55_0.zip

This kit is fairly complete as shown below.

$ gs -h
GPL Ghostscript 9.55.0 (2021-09-27)
Copyright (C) 2021 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Usage: gs [switches] [file1.ps file2.ps ...]
Most frequently used switches: (you can use # in place of =)
  -dNOPAUSE           no pause after page   | -q       `quiet', fewer 
messages
  -g<width>x<height>  page size in pixels   | -r<res>  pixels/inch 
resolution
  -sDEVICE=<devname>  select device         | -dBATCH  exit after last file
  -sOutputFile=<file> select output file: - for stdout, |command for pipe,
                                          embed %d or %ld for page #
Input formats: postscript postscriptlevel1 postscriptlevel2 
postscriptlevel3 pdf
Default output device: x11alpha
Available devices:
    alc1900 alc2000 alc4000 alc4100 alc8500 alc8600 alc9100 ap3250 appledmp
    atx23 atx24 atx38 bbox bit bitcmyk bitrgb bitrgbtags bj10e bj10v bj10vh
    bj200 bjc600 bjc800 bjc880j bjccmyk bjccolor bjcgray bjcmono bmp16 
bmp16m
    bmp256 bmp32b bmpgray bmpmono bmpsep1 bmpsep8 ccr cdeskjet cdj1600 
cdj500
    cdj550 cdj670 cdj850 cdj880 cdj890 cdj970 cdjcolor cdjmono cdnj500 cfax
    chp2200 cif cljet5 cljet5c cljet5pr coslw2p coslwxl declj250 deskjet
    devicen dfaxhigh dfaxlow display dj505j djet500 djet500c dl2100 dnj650c
    docxwrite epl2050 epl2050p epl2120 epl2500 epl2750 epl5800 epl5900
    epl6100 epl6200 eplcolor eplmono eps2write eps9high eps9mid epson epsonc
    escp escpage faxg3 faxg32d faxg4 fmlbp fmpr fpng fs600 gdi hl1240 hl1250
    hl7x0 hpdj1120c hpdj310 hpdj320 hpdj340 hpdj400 hpdj500 hpdj500c hpdj510
    hpdj520 hpdj540 hpdj550c hpdj560c hpdj600 hpdj660c hpdj670c hpdj680c
    hpdj690c hpdj850c hpdj855c hpdj870c hpdj890c hpdjplus hpdjportable 
ibmpro
    imagen inferno ink_cov inkcov itk24i itk38 iwhi iwlo iwlq jetp3852 jj100
    jpeg jpegcmyk jpeggray la50 la70 la75 la75plus laserjet lbp310 lbp320
    lbp8 lex2050 lex3200 lex5700 lex7000 lips2p lips3 lips4 lips4v lj250
    lj3100sw lj4dith lj4dithp lj5gray lj5mono ljet2p ljet3 ljet3d ljet4
    ljet4d ljet4pjl ljetplus ln03 lp1800 lp1900 lp2000 lp2200 lp2400 lp2500
    lp2563 lp3000c lp7500 lp7700 lp7900 lp8000 lp8000c lp8100 lp8200c 
lp8300c
    lp8300f lp8400f lp8500c lp8600 lp8600f lp8700 lp8800c lp8900 lp9000b
    lp9000c lp9100 lp9200b lp9200c lp9300 lp9400 lp9500c lp9600 lp9600s
    lp9800c lps4500 lps6500 lq850 lxm3200 lxm5700m m8510 md1xMono md2k
    md50Eco md50Mono md5k mgr4 mgr8 mgrgray2 mgrgray4 mgrgray8 mgrmono 
miff24
    mj500c mj6000c mj700v2c mj8000c ml600 necp6 npdl nullpage oce9050 oki182
    oki4w okiibm oprp opvp paintjet pam pamcmyk32 pamcmyk4 pbm pbmraw pcl3
    pclm pcx16 pcx24b pcx256 pcxcmyk pcxgray pcxmono pdfimage24 pdfimage32
    pdfimage8 pdfwrite pgm pgmraw pgnm pgnmraw photoex picty180 pj pjetxl
    pjxl pjxl300 pkm pkmraw pksm pksmraw plan plan9bm planc plang plank 
planm
    plib plibc plibg plibk plibm png16 png16m png256 png48 pngalpha pnggray
    pngmono pngmonod pnm pnmraw ppm ppmraw pr1000 pr1000_4 pr150 pr201
    ps2write psdcmyk psdcmyk16 psdcmykog psdrgb psdrgb16 pxlcolor pxlmono
    r4081 rinkj rpdl samsunggdi sj48 spotcmyk st800 stcolor t4693d2 t4693d4
    t4693d8 tek4696 tiff12nc tiff24nc tiff32nc tiff48nc tiff64nc tiffcrle
    tiffg3 tiffg32d tiffg4 tiffgray tifflzw tiffpack tiffscaled tiffscaled24
    tiffscaled32 tiffscaled4 tiffscaled8 tiffsep tiffsep1 txtwrite uniprint
    x11 x11alpha x11cmyk x11cmyk2 x11cmyk4 x11cmyk8 x11gray2 x11gray4 
x11mono
    x11rg16x x11rg32x xcf xes xpswrite
Search path:
    $1$DGA2:[UTILITIES.GS.LIB] , $1$DGA2:[UTILITIES.GS.FONTS] ,
    %rom%[Resource.Init] , %rom%[lib]
Initialization files are compiled into the executable.
For more information, see GS_DOC:Use.htm.
Please report bugs to bugs.ghostscript.com.

The only thing missing is the OCR device as that is written in C++ and 
won't compile using the currently available VMS C++ compilers.
(It may be that I am chomping at the bit a little bit awaiting the 
completion of the compiler work currently being furiously worked on at VSI).

Mark Berryman