Subject: genscript-1.2.20-1 released

From: [email-masked] (Sven Rudolph)
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 02:32:11 +0100

Date:  Wed Nov 15 02:09:01 MET 1995
Package:  genscript
Version:  1.2.20-1
Description:  Converting ASCII texts to Postscript
 Genscript converts ASCII files to PostScript and stores generated
 output to a file or sends it directly to the printer. 
Changes:
 * created new Debian GNU/Linux package maintenance system files
# File: <name> <size> <md5sum> <destination>
File: genscript-1.2.20-1.tar.gz 234095 e8a1722ed2085c6b30c3c3356a316c2f source/text
File: genscript-1.2.20-1.diff.gz 2402 c4e09b51d101ce64b2e31fa88d644baa source/text
File: genscript-1.2.20-1.deb 167319 92228a9cb11a8a78b55002c79aa32912 binary/text

(This program doesn't use /etc/papersize yet.)

	Sven
-- 
Sven Rudolph ([email-masked]); WWW : http://www.sax.de/~sr1/

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From: Bill Mitchell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 19:14:29 -0800 (PST)

>  output to a file or sends it directly to the printer. 

Perhaps I'm in a nitpickey mood today, and perhaps I'm off base here.

Is the package name "genscript" taken from the upstream package name?
If not, is it a good name?

I think "genps", or some such name which is more suggestive of postscript
(as opposed to sed,awk,bash,sh,chs,... scripts) would be a better name.
However, if the upstream package is namad "genscript", I think it's
better to retain that (unfortunate) name than to change it.

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From: Jeffrey Ebert <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 95 01:25 EST

Hi Bill,

>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Mitchell <[email-masked]> writes:
    Bill> On Wed, 15 Nov 1995, Sven Rudolph wrote:

    >> Description: Converting ASCII texts to Postscript Genscript
    >> converts ASCII files to PostScript and stores generated output
    >> to a file or sends it directly to the printer.

    Bill> Perhaps I'm in a nitpickey mood today, and perhaps I'm off
    Bill> base here.

    Bill> Is the package name "genscript" taken from the upstream
    Bill> package name?  If not, is it a good name?

Genscript is a GPLed version of enscript. I don't know who wrote it,
but it seems to be available on most Sun platforms I have used, and it
is proprietary (to somebody). Basically, it is the upstream package
name.

I understand your nitpicks, although I had never thought about it
meaning 'generate scripts' before now. :) 

Jeff