Re: [abcusers] linux only ?

[John Chambers]

| >(I have been tempted to translate abc[m]2ps to  perl,  just  for  the
| >yuks,  and  for  extra  portability.   Then  it  wouldn't  have to be
| >compiled.  But I  bet  I'd  get  flamed  because  perl  doesn't  come
| >pre-installed on all possible computer systems.  ;-)
|
| Wouldn't the most portable language for it be PostScript itself?

You might think so, but it seems that  Windows  systems  still  don't
come out of the box with a postscript viewer.  Pretty much everything
else does, though. The idea of doing it in postscript is interesting.
I wonder how difficult it would actually be?

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