Unfortunately Ghostscript can't convert that .ps file to a PDF. On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 3:42 PM Chet Ramey wrote: > On 8/20/20 12:08 PM, John Cowan wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 11:55 AM Steve Nickolas > > 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/ >