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From: miller@hamnavoe.demon.co.uk miller@hamnavoe.demon.co.uk
Subject: Need S/W for dvi/ps>24pin/bj10
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 10:51:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19961115105156.Xy6bBQ_ZJZ8dBKHaaW37XAcqPUt_I19OqKl3hWTpvRU@z> (raw)

Nigel Roles <ngr@symbionics.co.uk> writes: 

| > Ghostscript can convert postscript to bj10.
| >
| Only if you rebuild it with the driver in, and then not on a vanilla
| PC kernel. You'll need to increase the maximum process size, and
| ensure you have 32Mb (more preferably) to survive the link phase.

A slight exaggeration: I've recompiled gs on an 8MB 486 (it takes a
few hours, but you only have to do it once).  Increasing the maximum
process size in the kernel is straightforward: change SEGMAPSIZE in
/sys/src/9/pc/mem.h from 16 to 32 and rebuild.

-- Richard Miller




             reply	other threads:[~1996-11-15 10:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-11-15 10:51 miller [this message]
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1996-11-15  8:02 Nigel
1996-11-14 19:58 Scott
1996-11-14 15:36 Thomas

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