
README for mp, the PostScript pretty printer.

Version 2.0 December 1988.

Permission is given to distribute these sources, as long as the
authorship messages are not removed, and no monies are exchanged.

The mp program will pretty print various files for you. It can be used
in conjunction with a mail reading utility for producing a pretty print
of your mail items. It can be used with a news reading tool to pretty
print news articles. Digests can also be printed, and this version can
pretty print ordinary ASCII files as well.

It uses a PostScript prologue file which normally resides in
/usr/local/lib, but this can be overwritten by use of the -p option.

See the manual pages for more details on these various options.

Do a "make" followed by a "make install" which will compile the mp program
and put the files in their default locations. You will probably have to
be super-user when you do the "make install"

Acknowledgements.

The original version of mp was written by Steve Holden in the ICON language,
when Steve worked for Sun Microsystems UK. I converted it to the C language
and added a few features. Bruno Pillard of Chorus Systemes, France added
support for MH mail and news article printing, plus a shell script (mailp)
which tidies up the user interface to mp. Dave Glowacki of Public Works
Computer Services, St Paul, MN. added the ability to print digests and
tidied up some of the other options. Rick Rodgers, UCSF School of Pharmacy,
San Francicso revised the initial version of the mp manual page.

Thanks go also to Bill Shannon, Roger De Salis, L. Jill Debord and David
Fiedler for bug reports and/or bug fixes. I'm grateful to all these people,
plus everybody who has suggested enhancements, and fixed bugs in the previous
versions.

I welcome further bug reports and suggestions for improvements.

    Rich.

Rich Burridge,          DOMAIN: richb@sunaus.oz.au
PHONE: +61 2 413 2666   UUCP:   {uunet,mcvax,ukc}!munnari!sunaus.oz!richb
