There is an email header in the file. If you edit it and remove everything before the %!PS-Adobe-2.0 preamble, it will load with gs and converts perfectly to pdf with ps2pdf. From: "John Cowan" To: "chet ramey" Cc: "The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2020 7:15:11 PM Subject: Re: [TUHS] Style command source available? Unfortunately Ghostscript can't convert that .ps file to a PDF. On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 3:42 PM Chet Ramey < chet.ramey@case.edu > wrote: On 8/20/20 12:08 PM, John Cowan wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 11:55 AM Steve Nickolas < usotsuki@buric.co > > wrote: > > > Funny you mention ksh since I've been trying to kitbash ksh93 into being > able to compile with make instead of the funky build system it currently > uses, without a lot of luck. > > > IIRC, Korn used make when developing ksh, but then shipped it with a > /bin/sh script because it was more portable than make was in those days > (and still is; there are tools that warn you to use gmake on BSD). After > all, a build process (unless it is interrupted) just needs to build, it > doesn't need to keep track of what has already been built. He might have started with make for ksh83 and 86, but switched to Fowler's nmake and then shipped that /bin/sh script in ksh88 for people (everyone, basically) who didn't have nmake. > That said, I have no idea what the state of the build process is now. Changing that was one of the controversial modifications made to ksh93 in ksh-2020. It's pretty complex. Here's a paper that describes part of it: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/vhll/full_papers/fowler.feature.ps -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/