$Id: readme,v 1.3 1992/10/07 22:06:08 craigs Exp $ README for nenscript version 1.13 Craig Southeren 2-October-1992 --------------------------------- This directory contains the sources for nenscript, a clone of the proprietary enscript program from Adobe Systems. For those who have never used enscript, it is a good ASCII to Postscript converter. This the second version of nenscript I have released. The first version (1.12 as of 20 August 1992) was received well, but it really needed a few changes. Thanks to everyone who sent in suggestions and code fragments. nenscript was written by me over a period of several months whilst I was working at Computer Sciences of Australia as a contractor. As a regular net-watcher, I saw that several people had (over the years) asked for a public domain version of enscript. Seeing as I had got tons of useful stuff off the net, I though this looked like a good opportunity to pay back the net community. So I convinced my manager that this would be a Good Thing. The main features of nenscript are: . produces Postscript output which fully conforms to the Document Structuring Conventions . support for normal and "gaudy" output . support for single or double column output . allows insertion of titles and headers in any font. . multiple copies of a document Features additional to nenscript are: . automatic wrapping of long lines . availability under MSDOS . executable is self contained - no additional files required The main feature that is NOT supported by nenscript is the ability to use fonts other than Courier for text output. This would require access to full font tables which I don't have have. New for version 1.13 -------------------------- The most important change is the support for additional paper sizes through the -T option. At the moment, only US and A4 paper sizes are supported, but others can be added easily by inserting them into the table in paper.c. Support for changeable tab stops has also been added on the -t option. A simple script called pstext allows nenscript to be used as replacement for the Adobe pstext program with print spooling systems such as CAP. Notes on 1.12 ------------- nenscript has been extensively used for over six months on a Sun-3/Sun-4 network with over 50 users. No major problems are currently outstanding. This version is identical with the addition of support for MSDOS. Installation ------------ To install, first select whether you want the US version or not. If the define US_VERSION is defined, then the default paper size is US, and the date is in US format. For Unix: The makefile provided will install nenscript in /usr/local/bin, with the man page in /usr/local/man/man1. This makfile works unchanged on a SIlicon Graphics Personal Iris 35D running Irix 4.0.2 and on a Sun SparcStartion II with SunOS 4.1.2 For MSDOS: I've lost my ability to compile under MSDOS, so I can't claim to have tested this. But the previous version DID compile, and this one should with little or no modifications. Features I would like to add: ----------------------------- Please send me your suggestions. I can't guarantee that I will do anything about them but if you don't tell me, I definitely won't!!! 1. Support for the ISO-Latin character set. At the moment, characters are just sent down to the printer. 2. Binary file detection. enscript attempts to detect binary files and will will reject them (unless forced to print) 3. Display of control characters. Control characters other than ^L (page break), ^I (tab) and newline are not trapped. 5. Support for the IBM PC character set, and perhaps some of the other display code pages. If you want to modify nenscript... ---------------------------------- The paper size definitions are now in a table in paper.c, so adding new paper sizes should be easy. Most of the machine dependent stuff is now in machdep.h, so porting to new machines should be easier.
