Re: showchar nonfunctional or undocumented

Klaatu <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Jan 2020 05:40:01 +1300
Newsgroups gmane.comp.printing.a2ps.bugs
Organization Slackermedia
Message-ID <1738115.xVE2FuvDkq@beast>
On Monday, January 13, 2020 05:30:00 AM Klaatu wrote:
> I spent some time trying to determine what the showchar script was for, and
> have so far failed. I'm wondering if anyone can provide guidance about what
> it's meant to do?
> 
> From reading it, it appears only to cat some postscript code with only
> nominal modification (nothing specific to the font or character name
> provided). It even seems to have Times-Roman hardcoded into it (maybe for
> rendering output?).
> 
> I'm at a loss. There's no man or info page for it, and --help only provides
> the basic syntax.
> 
> Thanks for a2ps!

Ignore this request, as I see now that showchar isn't part of a2ps! My distro 
packaged some scripts from psutils along with a2ps, and I didn't realize it 
until building a2ps from source myself.

Sorry for the noise.