Re: [Groff] Re: grohtml utility programs in DESC?

[Alejandro López-Valencia]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Werner LEMBERG" <wl at gnu.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 2:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Groff] Re: grohtml utility programs in DESC?


>
> I rather prefer to use gswin32c -- the less changes the better.
>
> Any idea why gs is called gswin32c at all?  I suspect that there is a
> command/program/tool which is already called `gs'.

It is a historical artifact. In the first ports of GS to DOS, the program
woud be invoked through a set of batch files (shell scripts under MS-DOG[1],
so the yung'ns know ... :-) that would take care of setting temporary
environmental variables that ware too expensive to keep loaded at all times
in the default 512 bytes of memory reserved for variables in the command.com
shell. They are still included in the distro and can be found in the private
lib directory (even in Unix!), but are not installed by default.

[1] MS-DOG is a registered despising of RMS.