Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf.edu!rodgers From: rodgers@cca.ucsf.edu (Rick Rodgers) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Request for Postscript display for a Sun Message-ID: <2310@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> Date: 15 Aug 89 21:19:47 GMT References: <4163@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> <17139@ut-emx.UUCP> Reply-To: rodgers@cca.ucsf.edu.UUCP (Rick Rodgers) Distribution: usa Organization: Computer Center, UCSF Lines: 24 > In article <4163@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> fowser@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Scott Fowser) writes: > >Does anybody know a site to ftp code for displaying Postscript > >programs on a Sun graphics display? > > Get NeWS -- it's a complete desktop system based on Display PostScript. > With that, using the command 'psh' will give you good PS debugging. > Don't know exactly where to get it, because I can't seem to recall if it's > proprietary or not -- you may have to talk to Adobe ... Gosh, this is misleading: 1) NeWS is a product of Sun Microsystems, and is licensed through them for a variety of machines; it has been available for Suns at a minimal cost. 2) NeWS is *NOT* based on Display PostScript (DP); NeWS is based on PostScript, and DP was written *LATER* by Adobe in collaboration with NeXT, Inc. Although both derived from a common ancestor, they are *NOT* equivalent. DP is available on the NeXT computer and some IBM workstations. -- R. P. C. Rodgers, Statistical Mechanics of Biomolecules, Dept. of Pharm. Chem., University of California, San Francisco CA 94118 (415)476-8910 (ARPA: rodgers@cca.ucsf.edu, BITNET: rodgers@ucsfcca, UUCP: ...ucbvax.berkeley.edu!cca.ucsf.edu!rodgers)