On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> James Allwright writes:
> | On Fri 29 Sep 2000 at 11:54AM +0200, Atte Andre Jensen wrote:
> | >
> | > Actually I'm in a situation where I have a couple of friends who are most
> | > insterested in using abc, but they don't have the geekines to setup stuff
> | > like ghostview/gvview (we're talking windows users).
> |
> | I think you are doing ghostview a dis-service. I'm pretty sure there are
> | versions with setup program for the benefit of Windowers.
>
> A month or so ago, I helped a friend load the latest version of
> ghostview onto her machine. It was so slick I couldn't believe it. It
> installed itself with no problems at all. It did ask whether you want
> it installed as the default handler for PS and PDF files. We said
> yes, downloaded a PDF file with the browser, and it worked the first
> time. We had an ABC program installed (some Windows version of
> abc2ps, I think), and it sent a tune to ghostview correctly the first
> time. I was impressed.
Same here. I set up a friend's Windows box a couple of months ago so he
can write abc in wordpad, drop the file onto something that represents
yaps to generate a bunch of eps's, and view the results with ghostview. I
was expecting it to be a hassle and put him off; and ended up relieved and
impressed by the way that it was almost as straightforward as Linux.
> Of course, it's getting fairly standard for free software to work so
> much better than commercial software. ;-)
;-)
--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem
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