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From: bau55536@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Larry Combs Jr)
Subject: Is Ghostscript 2.5 Available?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: gnu
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:15:24 GMT

  About a week ago I saw a message stating that GS2.5 was going to be
  delayed.  Is this the case, or is it available now?  If so, please
  inform me as to where.


						Thanks in advance,
							Larry Combs, Jr.
							b-uffelmann@uiuc.edu
							 

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch)
Subject: Re: gs2.5 vs. hp laserjet looses
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 06:38:55 GMT

Re <9208210415.AA16171@cookie-crisp>
<9208210415.AA16171@cookie-crisp>:

> Everything goes OK using the sunview, x11 or epson drivers, but when generating
> output using -sDEVICE=laserjet all interline space is removed.
> 
> The same file printed fine using gs2.4.1 (which, stupidly, I've deleted).
> I've tried playing with hp2pbm and jiggling the ESC codes, but I have no
> laserjet spec.

Sigh.  This is one of those exasperating "day after the release"
bugs.  Change the p+%dY on line 319 of gdevdjet.c to b%dY.  (This bug
fix was submitted by the poster of the above message -- thanks.)

L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306
ghost@aladdin.com, ...decwrl!aladdin!ghost ; 415-322-0103 voice ; no fax yet
	    "Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery."


Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch)
Subject: Re: driver for epson GQ3500
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 06:09:42 GMT

Re <9208110637.AA21850@cookie-crisp>
<23255.9208102315@thor.cf.ac.uk>:

> It's a bitmapped based printer i.e. you download a bit map into its
> memory and then tell it to print it, so I need a routine that returns an
> array of bytes that contains a complete bit map of the whole rendered
> page. Just like taking a screen dump of the ghostscript window. I've had
> a brief look at the gdevmem routines but I can't really make sense of
> what I need and don't need. What I want to do is send an initialisation
> string to the printer which says, here comes a bit map and then just
> send a complete dump of the page down. Is it too simple to expect to
> just have one procedure call that returns a complete bitmap? Hopefully
> not otherwise things will be more awkward. 
> 
> Is this the only laser printer that works in this way? 

Read the 'bit' driver.  Ghostscript can deliver one scan line at a
time, but it can't deliver the entire bitmap at once.

L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306
ghost@aladdin.com, ...decwrl!aladdin!ghost ; 415-322-0103 voice ; no fax yet
	    "Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery."


Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: darel@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (darel)
Subject: Ghostscript's Fonts?
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Distribution: gnu
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 20:09:44 GMT

I am not sure if this is the correct news group, and if it is
inappropriate I apologize.

I installed X11R5 on a SUN IPX (4.1.2) and then installed GS2.4.

The font documentation implies that GS uses the MIT X11 fonts but GS
fails to find any fonts other than the default UGLY font. Is there
a necessity to install separate fonts for GS? If this is so, why
does the font.doc file refer to the use of the X11 fonts? I would
rather not replicate the fonts in another directory for GS to use
if this can be avoided.

Again I apologize for the neophyte question.....


Thanks for any help or pointers you can provide....


Darel



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Electrical and Computer Engineering
McMaster University			    darel@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: jtkohl@cs.berkeley.edu (John T Kohl)
Subject: GS 2.5 vs. HP DeskJet 500
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: gnu
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 17:26:08 GMT

I picked up GhostScript 2.5 yesterday, and the DeskJet 500 driver seems
to have introduced a couple problems.

(1) Vertical lines may disappear.  [I see the problem easily with text
set in 11pt Computer Modern (set with dvips from LaTeX output); notice
that the descenders of "p" and "q" seem to be missing, except for the
serifs!].

This problem can be cured by reverting to the old way (gs241) of switching
between mode 2 and mode 3 compression  (the comments by the code that
uses these switch strings implies that PCL requires a graphics mode
end/start to switch compression modes; my HP DeskJet 500 works properly
*without* that switch, and fails *with* it):

*** /tmp/T0003796	Fri Aug 21 07:46:52 1992
--- gs25/gdevdjet.c	Thu Aug 20 23:47:03 1992
***************
*** 239,249 ****
--- 239,257 ----
  	int y_dots_per_pixel = Y_DPI_MAX / pdev->y_pixels_per_inch;
  	int out_count;
  	int compression = -1;
+ #if 0
  	static const char from2to3[] = "\033*rB\033*r1A\033*b3m";
  	int penalty_from2to3 = strlen(from2to3);
  	static const char from3to2[] = "\033*rB\033*r1A\033*b2m";
  	int penalty_from3to2 = strlen(from3to2);
  	int paper_size = gdev_pcl_paper_size((gx_device *)pdev);
+ #else
+ 	static const char from2to3[] = "\033*b3M";
+ 	int penalty_from2to3 = strlen(from2to3);
+ 	static const char from3to2[] = "\033*b2M";
+ 	int penalty_from3to2 = strlen(from3to2);
+ 	int paper_size = gdev_pcl_paper_size((gx_device *)pdev);
+ #endif
  
  	if ( storage == 0 )	/* can't allocate working area */
  		return_error(gs_error_VMerror);


[[ I also wonder whether the change strings should end with \033*b2M
(capital M) rather than lowercase; testing that change failed to make
the descenders reappear ]]

(2)  The margins are screwed up for the DeskJet 500.  For letter-sized
paper, the top margin on the DeskJet 500 with perforation skip turned
off is 0 (according to my manual), not 0.40!

Again, reverting to the margins used in gs241 makes this problem go
away.  [Although I wonder whether the original DeskJet really does have
such a large top margin?]:

*** /tmp/T0003796	Fri Aug 21 07:46:52 1992
--- gdevdjet.c	Thu Aug 20 23:47:03 1992
***************
*** 58,64 ****
   */
  
  /* Margins are left, bottom, right, top. */
! #define DESKJET_MARGINS_LETTER	0.25, 0.40, 0.25, 0.40
  #define DESKJET_MARGINS_A4	0.15, 0.40, 0.15, 0.05
  
  #ifndef A4
--- 58,64 ----
   */
  
  /* Margins are left, bottom, right, top. */
! #define DESKJET_MARGINS_LETTER	0.25, 0.50, 0.25, 0.0625
  #define DESKJET_MARGINS_A4	0.15, 0.40, 0.15, 0.05
  
  #ifndef A4
--
John Kohl <jtkohl@cs.berkeley.edu>
UC Berkeley CS grad student
Member of the League for Programming Freedom--details: league@prep.ai.mit.edu
(The above opinions are MINE.  Don't put my words in somebody else's mouth!)

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch)
Subject: Re: Can't convert Hershey fonts to C
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 06:08:26 GMT

Re <9208200414.AA14128@cookie-crisp>
<BRIAN.92Aug19135629@kokom.mit.edu>:

> I am installing Ghostscript 2.4.1, and I wanted to precompile all the
> fonts.  I get this error when I try to run font2c on any of the
> Hershey fonts:

As the documentation says, you can only compile Type 1 fonts.
Hershey fonts are not Type 1.


L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306
ghost@aladdin.com, ...decwrl!aladdin!ghost ; 415-322-0103 voice ; no fax yet
	    "Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery."


Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch)
Subject: Ghostscript 2.5 performance problem
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 00:22:59 GMT

The following change will get Ghostscript 2.5 close to the speed of
2.4.1.  Change line 219 of gxpcopy.c from
		else if ( adx3 > scaled_flat << 1 )
to
		else if ( adx3 >> 3 > scaled_flat )
and similarly change line 245 from
		else if ( ady3 > scaled_flat << 1 )
to
		else if ( ady3 >> 3 > scaled_flat )

This may not be the final form of the fix, but it will do the job for
the moment.

The bug only affected (dramatically!) the speed of rendering curves
and arcs that are not part of characters.  If you are experiencing
performance problems on pages that contain only text and straight
lines, let me know.

L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306
ghost@aladdin.com, ...decwrl!aladdin!ghost ; 415-322-0103 voice ; no fax yet
	    "Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery."


Newsgroups: stl.general
From: agm@palm53.bnr.co.uk (Andrew G. Minter)
Subject: Apple LaserWriter I Part Needed
Reply-To: agm@palm53.bnr.co.uk (Andrew G. Minter)
Organization: BNR Europe Limited
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 09:49:18 GMT


I have an Apple LaserWriter I which has at some stage lost it's paper
output tray. If anybody has one that is not required lying around I'd be
immensely grateful.

Right now the thing is sitting on a little platform in my living room.
The paper comes out, falls on to the ground and gets eaten by the rabbit
if I'm not quick enough.

Andrew
From: wolf@prosun.first.gmd.de (Wolfgang Koehler)
Newsgroups: rec.running
Subject: Muscles and running times
Date: 20 Aug 92 10:16:44 GMT
Organization: GMD-FIRST, D-1000 Berlin 10

My imagination is that muscles hinder from good running times, the more
the longer the distance becomes.
Especially, if the muscles are built up with body building because there
is a disbalance between muscle fibres and blood supply.

The best demonstrations for this  hypothesis are  the decathlethes in their
final 1500 m race.

It's always amazing for me to see these strong and musculous athletes
dying at the finish line with results every better shoolboy beates.

I wonder what would be if they had to run 3000m .
They would never reach the goal :^).

On the other hand have a look at some good marthoners, esp. Africans.
They have so thin legs, it seems they have no muscles at all, only
skin and bones. 


-- 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    ... always look on the bright side of life ... (Monty Python)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Wolfgang Koehler                                    wolf@first.gmd.de

GMD - FIRST an der TU Berlin                   German National Research Centre 
                                                    for Computer Science
Fachbereich 20

Sekretariat FR 2/1
From: dguerrer@lyra.cel.scg.hac.com (Daniel Guerrero)
Newsgroups: rec.running
Subject: Re: running style book recommendation
Date: 18 Aug 92 04:47:03 GMT
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Colorado Engineering Labs

In article <1992Aug14.211256.10349@cid.aes.doe.CA> afsidbb@cidsv07.Berkeley.EDU (Douglas Bender) writes:
>
>  I am interested in improving my running style.  Are there any good books
>on this subject??
>
>Thanks in advance
>     Doug
>

Try "The New Competitive Runner's Handbook" by Bob Glover & Pete Schuder.

--
============================================================================
Dan Guerrero : dguerrer@rigel.hac.com     |  All science is either physics
Hughes Aircraft Colorado Engineering      |  or stamp collecting.
   Laboratory				  |     - Ernest Rutherford
From: gkc@freddie.udev.cdc.com (gordon k chace x2367)
Newsgroups: rec.running
Subject: Re: Dick Beardsley (was something else)
Date: 12 Aug 92 13:47:41 GMT

In article <1992Aug11.174325.159867@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH) writes:
|> 1) "Go for it" under hot, humid conditions, and risk my future running career
|>     after the effort,, perhaps even my life [cf. Salzar at Falmouth ~1979,
|>     Beardsley at Boston ~1983], and take away the gold and glory?

You are referring to 1982 Boston, Salazar beat Beardsley by about two seconds.
It was Salazar who needed more medical help afterwards.  However, this was
Beardsley's last top-notch effort, all subsequent marathons were slower.

Trivia: for a while, Beardsley held the "world record" for non-winning
marathon times at 2:08:54.

Beardsley's greatest medical risks have derived from farming accidents :-(

-- 
Gordon K. Chace, who met Beardsley once.  What a nice guy!
Control Data Systems, Inc.   phone (612) 482-6524   fax 482-2791
email gkc@udev.cdc.com
RISC: Really Invented on the Sixty-six-hundred by CDC
Newsgroups: rec.running,misc.fitness
From: jac@noaacrd.colorado.edu (Julia Collins)
Subject: Re: 1/4 miles in 46 seconds - what's a decent pace for fat people?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 15:05:12 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.010817.21032@henson.cc.wwu.edu> n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio) writes:
>
>I did a 1/4 mile in 50 sec, walked one lap, did 1/4 mil in 48 sec, 
>walked two laps, then did a 1/4 mile in 46 sec.
>....
>Is this a reasonable plan for speedy improvement, or would I have to 
>do more?   I am aiming for cardivascular improvement, a lower resting
>pulse (currently ~70min), faster times, and possibly a small amount 
>of weight loss, although that is not as important to me right now.
>I never _ever_ plan to enter any kind of competition of any kind.  
>This is solely for my own well being.
 
If your priority is cardiovascular improvement, you would be better
off doing longer running intervals at a conversational pace, keeping 
your heart rate elevated at a moderate level for the often publicized 
"20 minutes, 3 times per week".  After this is comfortable then it 
would be appropriate to re-introduce the interval workout you describe.
Doing some running at the moderate, consistent pace gives you a better
running base to handle the interval workouts, hopefully preventing 
injury.

Julia
.................................................................
: e-mail:       jac@noaacrd.colorado.edu			:
:...............................................................:
: Given that true intellectual and emotional compatibility are  :
: at the very least difficult, if not impossible, to come by,   :
: we could always opt for the more temporal gratification of    :
: sheer physical attraction.  That wouldn't make you a shallow 	:
: person...would it? 	 		- Lyle Lovett		:
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Newsgroups: rec.running
From: cyeomans@ms.uky.edu (Charles Yeomans)
Subject: Re: Muscles and running times
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 18:00:31 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

In article <1992Aug20.141912.9362@kth.se> TordM@VanD.PhySto.SE writes:
>In article <2220@bigfoot.first.gmd.de>, wolf@prosun.first.gmd.de (Wolfgang Koehler) writes:
>
>>My imagination is that muscles hinder from good running times, the more
>>the longer the distance becomes.
>>Especially, if the muscles are built up with body building because there
>>is a disbalance between muscle fibres and blood supply.
>
> yeah, to some degree, take a glance at 100[m] runners, they've got a load
>of muslces, and run pretty fast, but their time on 3000[m] wouldn't be too
>great should they try it. other way around, a marathon runner with almost
>bones and skin wouldn't do a too good time on 100[m] should they try that...
>
> most long distance runners lift weights to strengthen their muscles, but
>they have a different lifting schedule than a body-builder of the
>A. Schwarzenegger kind. Simplified; marathon runners would lift easy weights
>more times thus producing "long" muscle-threads (nerves?) that are able to
>work for longer time, and a body-builder heavier weights for a shorter
>time gaining "shorter" and explosive muscles...
>
I disagree.  I think running builds al the endurance one needs.  I think
runners are better off lifting for strength.  All those people in
misc.fitness are killing themselves lifting and posting themselves
silly looking for the magic food that will allow them to get big
muscles, so I think the readers of this newsgroup have little to worry
about when it comes to getting too bulky.  Also, it
is well-known that running is bad for lifters; seems to cause them to lose
mass.

Charles Yeomans
yeomans@austin.onu.edu
cyeomans@ms.uky.edu
Newsgroups: rec.running
Subject: Re: HELP! Toledo 24 Hour Run Info Needed ASAP
From: szloh@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu (Mike Szloh)
Date: 13 Aug 92 15:36:02 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Dept. of CSE, University of Toledo
Originator: szloh@jupiter



In article <1992Aug12.163509.20228@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, an241@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joe Jurczyk) writes:
|> 
|> Help !
|> Can some kind soul please post information on the 24 Hour run
|> next month in Toledo (or e-mail if you prefer) ?  It's not
|> listed in the most recent issue of Ultrarunning and I'd like to
|> get more information on entering.   Thanks in advance. ....Joe

    The 24 Hour Run is on saturday and sunday the 19/20 of September.
  It starts at noon and goes til noon the next day. Olander Park is 
  the place, and Tom Falvey (419) 475-0731 is who to call for more
  info.   
-- 
 Mike Szloh | szloh@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu 
 The University of Toledo
From: stimpson@selway.umt.edu (Danny Stimpson)
Newsgroups: rec.running
Subject: Running nerd wants computer log software
Keywords: software,log
Date: 20 Aug 92 16:34:06 GMT
Organization: University of Montana

I have been looking around for software that keeps track of my running
statistics in some type of electronic format.  My subscription to 
"Runner's World" magazine had an article that reviewed 17 computer
type programs in the May 1992 issue.  I would like some feedback from
people who are using a PC to log and analyze their running information.
Any recommendations or comments on this subject would be greatly
appreciated.  :-).

Danny
The University of Montana
Missoula MT
stimpson@selway.umt.edu
From: kgirodias@azcc.arizona.edu
Newsgroups: rec.running
Subject: Re: Olympic Marathon HOT!
Date: 17 Aug 92 14:48:54 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona UNIX Users Group

> 
> I was not all that surprised. Africans have not done (all)
> that well in championship marathons of late, and were not a factor in the
> heat and humidity in tokyo either.

Salah of Djouboti finished 2nd in Toyko last year!!!

Ken
Xref: sparky rec.running:2314 misc.fitness:6807
From: n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio)
Newsgroups: rec.running,misc.fitness
Subject: Re: 1/4 miles in 46 seconds - what's a decent pace for fat people?
Date: 19 Aug 92 01:32:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: henson.1992Aug19.013243.7757
Organization: Western Washington University

hpzg0650@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Hale P Zengingonul) writes:

>  Are you sure about the distance? The world record for 400 meters is ~40 sec.
>1/4 mile is a little over 400m. If I were you I would check the distance
>again.
>						Pinar

Ahh, 	....make that 1 min 46 sec.   My girlfriend was timing me, and
I don't think she was looking at the min hand, though she swears she
was.   The only explanation I can think of is that I was one whole min. off,
(& rather embarssed to have posted this now),
as the track I use is a standard 440 yards to the lap, to the best of
my knowledge.

Someone said the figure would have been reasonable for 380-420 yds, but
not 440, I'll check the specs for the track (and lane 3rd from outer),
but a missing minute seems to be the best answer.

  So solly.

Jim D

Follow up to alt.folklore.urban		;^)
Newsgroups: rec.running
From: pem@mahogany25.cray.com (Paul Martin)
Subject: Re: Saucony 3000
Originator: pem@mahogany25
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 12 Aug 92 13:12:24 CDT


  I've recently seen Saucony 2000s for sale at a local Sears store. 
Price was about $35.   
  I also just saw Saucony Jazz 3000s for sale in Runner's World catalog
that just arrived yesterday!!
  I've used both the 2000 and 3000 and find them great, as did the majority 
of the people in the Consumer Report survey reported a couple months ago. 
Newsgroups: rec.running
From: kenl@origami.cc.bellcore.com (Ken Lehner)
Subject: Re: Muscles and running times
Organization: Bellcore
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 16:17:15 GMT


In article <1992Aug20.190856.7054@cs.ucla.edu>, page@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Thomas Page) writes:
|> Running builds a specific set of muscles, mostly up the back of the body, ie
|> calfs, hamstrings, lower back.  This creates an imbalance which leads to
|> injuries.  One way to combat this is to use weights to exercise the opposing
|> muscle groups like the shins, quads, and abdomen.  This only improves a runner's

I disagree completely.  From my college track days (Cornell '80), I
learned that the main reason runners (especially sprinters) pull
hamstrings is because their quadriceps are too developed as compared to
their hamstrings.  Just look at world-class runners:  they usually have
well-developed quads.  The fastest guy I run with (15:05 5k) has enormous
quads.  The fastest sprinters on my college team (whose 4x100 relay made
the finals at the NCAAs) had skinny calves; the calf seemed to be just a
lever used by the quads.

|> should probably do some form of upper body workout too.  There is little reason
|> to believe that upper body work will improve your running times (or hurt them
|> unless you put on a lot of bulk which is unlikely).  Some runners (like Steve
|> Spence) believe that they can maintain form better late in a marathon if they
|> have more upper body strength.  There is little evidence for or against this, so
|> it's just a matter of person opinion.

More personal opinion:  ALL the runners at Cornell lifted for upper-body
strength, from the sprinters to the distance runners.  This included Pete
Pfitzinger (LA '84, Seoul '88 marathons), and the guy who broke his
x-country course record.  Being able to recruit the upper body muscles at
the end of the race to assist fatigued leg muscles is an important
advantage.  The more you can drive the elbows back, the more knee lift you
will generate.

Sorry for name-dropping, but I would like to show the caliber of runners
I've seen lift.