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- Copyright (C) 1989, 1990, 1991 Aladdin Enterprises. All rights reserved.
- Distributed by Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
- This file is part of Ghostscript.
-
- Ghostscript is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. No author or distributor accepts responsibility
- to anyone for the consequences of using it or for whether it serves any
- particular purpose or works at all, unless he says so in writing. Refer
- to the Ghostscript General Public License for full details.
-
- Everyone is granted permission to copy, modify and redistribute
- Ghostscript, but only under the conditions described in the Ghostscript
- General Public License. A copy of this license is supposed to have been
- given to you along with Ghostscript so you can know your rights and
- responsibilities. It should be in a file named COPYING. Among other
- things, the copyright notice and this notice must be preserved on all
- copies.
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- For an overview of Ghostscript and a list of the documentation files, see
- README.
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- .TH GS 1
- .SH NAME
- gs \- ghostscript previewer
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .B gs
- [
- gs_statd.ps
- ]
- [
- .I file ...
- ]
- .br
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- Ghostscript is a programming language similar to Adobe Systems'
- PostScript (tm) language, which is in turn similar to Forth.
- .I Gs
- reads
- .I file
- and displays it as a Ghostscript file.
- It then interprets commands from standard input until an end of file
- character (^D or CTRL-D) is typed.
- The `quit' character (^C) also terminates Ghostscript execution.
- .SH "SEE ALSO"
- dvi2ps(1), lpr(1)
- .SH BUGS
- Beta Software.
- See the netnews group ``gnu.ghostscript.bugs''.
-