This is version 3.0 of a2ps, a program to format an ascii file for
printing in a postcript printer. As the copyright indicates, this
distribution can be freely redistributed.

Initial version was a shell program written by evan@csli (Evan
Kirshenbaum). It was very slow and contained many bugs. A new
version was written in C for improve speed execution and portability.
Many new features and improvements have been added.


Some notes on the distribution:

    Installation is done by modifying and executing Makefile included
    in this distribution. You must give a value to two variables:
    - HEADER_PS	a2ps will search there the file header.ps at execution
		time.
    - compiler	compiler name, actually one of BSD, SYSV, ANSIC. Turbo
		C and Microsoft C are considered ANSIC compilers.
    You could also give your own values to following variables:
    a) Physical page dimension. Dimensions must be real constants,
       specifying inch values.
       - HEIGHT	 sheet height
       - WIDTH	 sheet width
       Default values correspond to A4 format (11.64 x 8.27). In USA, you use
       use in general 11.0 x 8.5.
    b) Total lateral (left+right) or vertical (top+bottom) margins. It must
       be also a real constant, specifying inchs (by default 1.2).
       - MARGIN
    c) Directory separator (by default '/')
       - DIR_SEP char

    a2ps has been successfully ported to Unix 4.3BSD, Unix SystemV and
    MSDOS.


The a2ps distribution consists of the following files:

	README		This message
	Makefile
	a2ps.c		a2ps source
	a2ps.1		a troff manual (man file)
	header.ps	postcript header used by a2ps

Decide where you want to keep these files and move it there.
Edit "Makefile" and change the definition of HEADER_PS (to
reflect the full pathname of header.ps) and of compiler name.
To make a2ps do:

    make a2ps

To install it, do:

    make install

Format the manual entry using

    nroff -man a2ps.1


Please send problems and feedback to:

    miguel@imag.fr or miguel@imag.UUCP (uunet.uu.net!imag!miguel)

    Miguel SANTANA
    LGI
    IMAG-Campus
    BP 53X
    38041 Grenoble Cedex