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	   A P S F I L T E R   V 4.8  -  "Announcement in USENET"
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                     copyright Andreas Klemm 1993, 1994

                            andreas@knobel.gun.de

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			co-author Thomas Bueschgens 

			    sledge@hammer.oche.de

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WHAT IS APSFILTER
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APSFILTER is a lineprinter input filter for systems with a BSD alike
printing mechanism (lpd, /etc/printcap), that saves users a lot of work 
when printing different file types no matter if compressed or not !!!

Additionally it enables non Postscript printers, that are supported
by the public domain postscript emulator "ghostscript" (gs), to
print postscript files automatically !

With the new apsfilter Version 3.0 it's now possible to print 
*compacted* documents directly without unpacking !!! 
The wanted packers/unpackers have to be already installed on your system.

 o Supported packers:

	GZIP, PACK, COMPRESS, FREEZE/MELT

 o Supported file types:

	Postscript
	TeX DVI
	Ascii
	Data (PCL,...)
	GIFF
	TIFF
	Sun Rasterfiles
	FIG
	PNM (pbmplus)
	JPEG

Unix Platforms, that are able to run apsfilter flawlessly
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	- FreeBSD 1.1.5.1
	- SUN SPARCSTATIONS, Solaris 1.1.1 (SunOS4)
	- some (not all) Linux Distributions
	  	Slackware V 1.1
		Slackware 2.0.0 (problems with permissions in spooldir)
		LST-1.8 (minor problem, incomplete /etc/magic file)

	- and surely all commercial Unix Systems, 
	  that run a BSD 4.X operating system

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These are the sites, where apsfilter versions can be found
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(1) This ftp server will also contain beta releases if we are
    currently on the way to a new release

	ftp server:	ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
	directory :	pub/Linux/local/packs/APSfilter

(2) Here we'll put only final releases

	ftp server :	ftp.Germany.EU.net	
	directory  :	pub/os/Linux/Local.EUnet/People/akl
	directory  :	pub/os/Linux/Incoming.EUnet

ftp the newest release from there. The current naming scheme for 
apsfilter releases is:		aps-Release.tgz

Beta versions contain the letter B in the version number and
have mostly a number with three digits.

Get apsfilter via ftp mail:
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File: aps-48.tgz	Size: ~200K

mail archive-server@germany.eu.net
Subject: <none>
uuencode
send os/Linux/Incoming.EUnet/aps-48.tgz
quit

Get apsfilter via ftp:
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ftp ftp.Germany.EU.Net
login: ftp
password: -yourname@yourhost.yourdomain
binary
hash
get /pub/os/Linux/Incoming.EUnet/aps-48.tgz
quit


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