The Unix Heritage Society mailing list
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Jim Capp <jcapp@anteil.com>
To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Style command source available?
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 19:20:40 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6304816.1759.1597965640616.JavaMail.root@zimbraanteil> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD2gp_QxcvL29fqW8B0wjYZSMK31V3uvweh7Gqrub6ka7b2naA@mail.gmail.com>

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1958 bytes --]


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" <cowan@ccil.org> 
To: "chet ramey" <chet.ramey@case.edu> 
Cc: "The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" <tuhs@tuhs.org> 
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 
> <mailto: 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/ 

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 3280 bytes --]

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-08-20 23:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-20 14:09 Richard Salz
2020-08-20 14:45 ` Jim Geist
2020-08-20 15:14   ` Clem Cole
2020-08-20 15:44     ` Steve Nickolas
2020-08-20 16:08       ` John Cowan
2020-08-20 16:30         ` Steve Nickolas
2020-08-20 16:48           ` John Cowan
2020-08-20 19:42         ` Chet Ramey
2020-08-20 23:15           ` John Cowan
2020-08-20 23:17             ` Chet Ramey
2020-08-20 23:20             ` Jim Capp [this message]
2020-08-21  9:21             ` Harald Arnesen
2020-08-21 14:42               ` John Cowan
2020-08-21 15:17                 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-08-21 15:23                 ` Steffen Nurpmeso

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=6304816.1759.1597965640616.JavaMail.root@zimbraanteil \
    --to=jcapp@anteil.com \
    --cc=cowan@ccil.org \
    --cc=tuhs@tuhs.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).