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+This directory contains Dvipsk, my (kb@mail.tug.org) modified version of
+Tom Rokicki's dvips, a DVI-to-PostScript translator.
+
+See `NEWS' for major changes by release, `ChangeLog` for all changes.
+See `INSTALL' for installation instructions.
+See `../kpathsea/BUGS' for details on reporting bugs.
+AT LEAST NEWS, ChangeLog, AND INSTALL ARE WOEFULLY OUT OF DATE.
+
+Aside from configuration, this differs from the original primarily in
+that it uses the same code for path searching as TeX and my other
+distributions.
+
+Dvipsk does not install any default config.ps file, since no one file is
+generally suitable. Sample Dvips config files are in the contrib/
+directory. See ./INSTALL.
+
+The documentation is now in Texinfo format. I've removed the font
+naming section, since it was an old version of the font naming document
+(which you can get from ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/fontname/).
+
+Dvipsk is free software; Tom's original files are public domain. The
+files I wrote (originally for the Free Software Foundation) are covered
+by the GNU General Public License -- see the files COPYING*.
+
+You can get the original dvips from ftp://labrea.stanford.edu/pub/dvips*.
+
+kb@mail.tug.org
+Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- write lpf@uunet.uu.net.
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+dvips 5.86 notes:
+
+ Minor improvements to epsf style file.
+ Another patch to t1part.c to make it more liberal in accepting pfb/pfa
+ font files.
+ Added PS reencoding reimplementation by Rob Hutchings.
+ Added 'F' in config file to send controlD.
+ Added quick exit if -? or -v.
+ Improved tex.lpro to fix a bug that showed up in distiller.
+ Improved tex.lpro to work around a problem in certain Windows
+ environments.
+ Made dvips complain if it had to section a document.
+ Eliminated use-after-free bug in hps.c.
+ Fixed a problem in t1part for the Euro fonts with partial font downloading.
+ Fixed a big problem in t1part for some font downloading due to
+ uninitialized allocations.
+ Added `unknown' paper size back to config.ps.
+ Made t1part munge the UniqueID to prevent cache problems in Acrobat and
+ other programs.
+ Fixed parsing error when whitespace following '<' in psfonts.map.
+ Made '<<' work correctly (disable partial font downloading for that
+ particular font) in psfonts.map.
+
+dvips 5.74 notes:
+
+ The epsf.sty and epsf.tex files are now in the public domain.
+ The t1part.c has been updated to support binary files with
+ multiple binary sections.
+
+dvips 5.72 notes:
+
+ Bug fix in t1part.c??? I hope so!
+
+ Debugging now turned on by default. No real reason to turn it off.
+ (Too many Linux versions of dvips without debugging have been
+ distributed, and it makes it very difficult to help the users with
+ their problems . . .)
+
+dvips 5.62 notes:
+
+ The makefile and config.ps and MakeTeXPK need to be modified to fit
+ your site!
+
+ dvips.tex needs updating.
+
+To document:
+ Landscape mfmode
+ HPS integration
+ Separate EPSF file generation
+ Better bbox support
+ Partial type 1 support
+ Comment elision now turned *off*
+ Upleveling of font requirements
+ Bitmap font descriptions
+
+Questions:
+ Should I eliminate PStfms/PSvfs/afm-extra?
+ Should I eliminate PSlatex? (my guess is yes)
+ Partial type 1 downloading (Sergey Lesenko)
+ HyperTeX support (Mark Doyle)
+ Lots of little bugs/changes/fixes
+
+Still todo:
+
+- Make a better copyfile that handles Level 2 data better
+- Add landscape mode def and code to select it.
+- Sanitize; test on various systems
+- Improve makefile!!! Goal: on a standard C installation (with stdlib
+ and all) and a Unix machine using TDS, make it be just a `make' away.
+- Improve diagnostics, especially when files not found.
+- Eliminate `extern' declarations; use header files properly
+
+Despite the fact that I reference Mark and Sergey, bugs are mine, mine,
+all mine, so please bug me and not them.
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+All real documentation is now in the file dvips.tex. There is also a file
+called test.tex that you can read and run to test some basic capabilities of
+dvips. INSTALLATION has the primary installation instructions.
+
+If you enjoy using dvips, you will probably enjoy being a member of
+the TeX Users Group. To join or contribute to TUG, contact them at
+
+ TeX Users Group
+ 1850 Union Street #1637
+ San Francisco, CA 94123
+ Voice: (415) 982-8449
+ FAX: (415) 982-8559
+ Email: TUG@tug.org
+ Web: http://www.tug.org/
+
+This is a list of people who have contributed substantially to dvips.
+I'm sure I've forgotten many. Thanks to all!
+
+Karl Berry
+P. W. Daly
+Mark Doyle
+Edward J. Groth
+James Hafner
+John Hobby
+Rob Hutchings
+Donald E. Knuth
+Russell Lang
+Sergey Lesenko
+Art Ogawa
+Melissa O'Neill
+Sebastian Rahtz
+Andrew Trevorrow
+Staszek Wawrykiewicz