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From: miller@ham... miller@ham...
Subject: Need S/W for dvi/ps>24pin/bj10
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 10:51:56 GMT

Nigel Roles <ngr@sym...> writes: 

| > Ghostscript can convert postscript to bj10.
| >
| Only if you rebuild it with the driver in, and then not on a vanilla
| PC kernel. You'll need to increase the maximum process size, and
| ensure you have 32Mb (more preferably) to survive the link phase.

A slight exaggeration: I've recompiled gs on an 8MB 486 (it takes a
few hours, but you only have to do it once).  Increasing the maximum
process size in the kernel is straightforward: change SEGMAPSIZE in
/sys/src/9/pc/mem.h from 16 to 32 and rebuild.

-- Richard Miller