Over the years I've documented a lot of odds and ends, frequently in
my diary. I come to rely on this information, but frequently
looking for it looks something like this:
=== grog@wantadilla (/dev/ttypa) ~/public_html 103 -> grep -i ghostscript diary*
diary-feb2003.html: ghostscript to print PostScript on non-PostScript printers. That's really important: the
diary-feb2003.html: ghostscript documentation is terrible, and it took me several hours to write up some
diary-feb2003.html: In the afternoon, finally got my section on printing with ghostscript finished, and
diary-mar2005.html:drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 13 13:26 ghostscript-gnu-7.07_12
diary-may2005.html: The problem is that ghostscript doesn't offer an easy 4x3 format for slides
diary-may2005.html: ghostscript/version/lib/gs_statd.ps:
diary-may2005.html: Starting with a recent update of ghostscript, this no longer worked properly. The
diary-oct2000.html: you're using ghostscript to print PostScript across the network: the *&*(&*(&&(
diary-sep2002.html: reinstalled ghostscript version 6.52, which did the trick. I'm left with the question
diary-sep2003.html: also showed a weakness of the software I'm using: ghostscript seems unable to maintain
=== grog@wantadilla (/dev/ttypa) ~/public_html 104 ->
Clearly there should be a simpler way, so when things like that happen, I now intend to
collect the information in a file in this directory. Much of this documentation is in a
“work in progress” status. Here's what I have:
