[TUHS] "Imake: an obsolete build tool" -- anybody got this?

[ron minnich]

you're right, that works fine, thanks.

no idea why apple preview won't just open .ps files any more, I thought
that used to work.

On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM Daria Phoebe Brashear <shadow at gmail.com>
wrote:

> If you mean
>
> https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/unix/security/docs/usenix/usenix/winter88/x-helloworld.ps.gz
> I ran ps2pdf on it (via homebrew) and it opened right up.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > also, related, I did find the original, wonderful, paper about writing
> hello, world in x11: it was a compressed .ps; it uncompressed fine but
> almost nothing I have could work with the .ps.
> >
> > gs on osx, evince on linux, ... nothing liked it.
> >
> > Plan 9 ghostscript shows it just fine.
> >
> > so if you get that old paper and have trouble viewing it, there is a fix.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 9:47 AM Daria Phoebe Brashear <shadow at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Actually, here ya go:
> >> https://archive.org/details/login_jan94
> >>
> >> On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM Daria Phoebe Brashear <
> shadow at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Who's got old issues of login? Mine probably were lost when I moved
> >> > out of my ex's place.
> >> >
> >> > J. S. Haemer.
> >> > Imake rhymes with mistake.
> >> > ;login:, 19(1):32-3, Jan-Feb 1994.
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 12:09 PM ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > I know it's out there, I just can't find it.
> >> > >
> >> > > It's also called the "imake rhymes with mistake" paper,  a nice
> companion to "going for baroque..."
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Daria Phoebe Brashear
> >> > AuriStor, Inc
> >> > dariaphoebe.com
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Daria Phoebe Brashear
> >> AuriStor, Inc
> >> dariaphoebe.com
>
>
>
> --
> Daria Phoebe Brashear
> AuriStor, Inc
> dariaphoebe.com
>
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