Re: Need help restoring an old feature

["James B. Hiller" <jhiller@xxxxxxxx>]

> > a.  If you can tell me where/how to get versions of apsfilter between
> > 5.2.0 and 7.2.1, I would be perfectly happy to install and test one at
> > a time, to see at what point the problem I'm having first occurs with
> > the smallest set of changes in the package.
> 
> I don't think you'd want to do that -- it would involve some
> serious cvs-fu...

Oh.  So there's not simply a historical archive of releases?  Ok.

[snip]

> In former releases, pretty printing was *not* enabled by
> default, so I think that's the cause for the visual
> differences you get.

So maybe I should be turning it OFF to get what I once had?

> > b.  When you say "perfect results", could you describe what you're getting
> > so that I can compare to what I observe in both cases (5.2.0 and 7.2.1)?
> 
> In color mode:

[snip]

> Different font sizes are not used in any mode. Unless noted
> otherwise, Courier is the font face.

Thank you for taking the time to put that all out.  I know that had to
be painful, but it gives me the baseline info I need.

> > c.  Could you tell me how to get a2ps 4.13b, since on the a2ps web page
> > there is no reference to it that I can find?
> 
> How about  ftp://ftp.enst.fr/pub/unix/a2ps/  ??

Thx!  It's lately been that many who have web pages have no ftp sites, so
I've gotten out of the habit of checking.

Will be off the net for about a week, so hope to find the answer next
weekend.

thx,
jbh