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To: -Vince- <vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu>
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Subject: Re: /etc/printcap for Deskjet 500 and gs 
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From: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk>
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[gratituously moved from -hackers - Gary]

In message <Pine.LNX.3.91.950402182804.24501k-100000@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu>
, -Vince- writes:
>	That would be neat.... netpbm doesn't have like the giftoppm and 
>the other ppm stuff that pbmplus has... Also, the dvips and the TeX in 
>the FreeBSD ports collection is broken in that dvips can't create fonts 
>while running in the background...

Did you report the problems with the TeX stuff? I don't remember hearing
anything about it!

And is there any reason for having netpbm but not pbmplus?

Gary