From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <21ff68b72cbb488c658c940b3300b958@plan9.bell-labs.com> From: "Russ Cox" To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] shared memory In-Reply-To: <500490e850e39f6bcca34fe83e4d221f@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 00:23:00 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 38f0eb16-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > Russ, have you revised the ghostscript to newest version? no. i did update our internal copy to gs 8.00, but that seemed to break more than it fixed. they just released 8.11, "the first stable release since 8.00", whatever that means. all i know is that i can't view the intel architecture manuals using 8.00. they're all shifted half a page up off the screen. i have not been impressed since peter deutsch handed over the reins. there used to be a mailing list for people interested in announcements about new releases. we'd get a mail a month saying "this just came out and fixes such-and-such." there's no equivalent now, so i never know when something is worth trying or not, and i haven't been very aggressive in watching for new releases. the instructions for pulling in new source are in /sys/src/cmd/gs/mkfile. mk try-8.11 should do most of the work. you may need to tweak it.