:^() >I see a lot of postings on this topic. Now, I start to wonder:
:^() >Can I display the answerbook on a X-terminal. Solaris 2.3 is said to use
:^() >displayPostScript instead of the NeWS server, and this should be possble,
:^() >but do you still need to be on a consloe to display the AnswerBook???
:^()
:^() It depends upon your X-terminal. Sun's NeWS protocol was supported by
:^() almost no X-terminals so it was impossible to use the NeWS based
:^() answerbook on them.
:^()
:^() There are X-terminals (though, of course, not the cheapest ones) which
:^() support display postscript. And several other workstation platforms
:^() (DEC, at least...and I believe IBM and HP) also support it. So with
:^() the move to DPS the number of platforms which can use answerbook is at
:^() least widened. So the situation is better, if still not ideal.
:^()
I have been unable to get it to display on my HP workstation. When I
type xdpyinfo on my HP X server I get:
name of display: concorde:0.0
version number: 11.0
vendor string: Hewlett-Packard Company
vendor release number: 506000
... stuff deleted ...
number of extensions: 11
HPExtension
XTestExtension1
SHAPE
MIT-SHM
Multi-Buffering
XInputExtension
XTEST
MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
stellar-shmLink
shmLink
XVideo
While on the Solaris 2.3 X server:
name of display: battlebridge:0.0
version number: 11.0
vendor string: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
vendor release number: 3300
... stuff deleted ...
number of extensions: 11
SUN_ALLPLANES
SHAPE
MIT-SHM
Multi-Buffering
XInputExtension
XInputDeviceEvents
XTEST
MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
SUN_DGA
Adobe-DPS-Extension
DPSExtension
So I guess HP does not license Adobe Postscript as an extensions to
it's X server, thus no answerbook for me ;^(
Thus has anyone ported the stuff for use with ghostscript?
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