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From: koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler)
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Subject: Re: viewing PostScript files on VMS 7.3-2
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Date: 25 Apr 2011 15:37:24 -0500
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In article <ip4j4d$oap$1@online.de>, helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
> After several years of doing other things, I want to make some plots
> like I did 10 or 15 years ago, using a Fortran program to create
> PostScript files then view them on screen with GV or GS.  Everything
> works like a charm, executables compiled on VMS 7.1 with Fortran 7.1
> (IIRC) back in 1996.  My own old code I have returned to and completed
> works as expected (at least it is (self-)commented enough that I
> understand it).  The only things which doesn't work is viewing the
> PostScript files created by the Fortran program.  I'm sure this worked
> back then, but that was an older version of VMS.  Does it perhaps have
> something to do with the lack of Display PostScript on newer versions of
> VMS? 

   I don't know if an older version of GV or GS used Display Postscript,
   but I've been using the GV and GS on VMS systems long after Display
   Postscript went away, with no problems.

   Try getting the latest GV, GS, for VMS.