Red Hat Linux comes with nenscript, a program for converting text into PostScript with several formatting options. As soon as I started using it, I realized that the capabilities of nenscript are only a small fraction of those of GNU enscript (which I was using before on my SPARCstation). [Note that enscript is 620KB while nenscript is only 19K.] In particular, GNU enscript allows one to arbitrarily scale a document, independently in the horizontal and vertical dimensions; this is a VERY useful feature. I wonder why RHL does not distribute the "real McCoy" GNU enscript instead of the lightweight nenscript. I've installed GNU enscript on my RHL system from the GNU distribtuion without any problems. I've also installed enscript from the RPM distribution at contrib.redhat.com. This works fine, except that: 1) It insists on installing in /usr rather that /usr/local (which would be my choice for software that I add). 2) It complains that it wants /usr/local/bin/perl. It still complained after I put in /usr/local/bin a link to /usr/bin/perl (that's where perl is in RHL5.2). I the asked rpm to install it ignoring dependencies, and at that point it installed fine and ran fine. (Since perhaps perl is called by enscript only in special circumstances, my test does not guarantee that my link to perl was to enscript's liking.) CONCLUSION: Why not replace nenscript...rpm by enscript...rpm in the RHL distribution? (And in that case make sure that it sits in /usr/bin and looks for perl in /usr/bin) Tom Toffoli
enscript is in rawhide.