INTERNET UTILITIES |
| East China
Normal University DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS |
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| Here are some freewares and low cost sharewares you may need to decompress the files you obtained from the internet, view or print PostScript files on your PC or for other purpose... | ||||
Compression Tools (MS-DOS or Windows) |
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| Most public domained stuff on the internet are compressed by gunzip, which has a .gz or .tgz (=tar.gz) extension. Unix users should familiar with these files. For MS-DOS users, we provide a MS-DOS version of gunzip (freeware version 1.2.4) here. Shareware Winzip 6.2 under Windows can decompress .gz files as well. To download the softwares, click the following appropriate links. | ||||
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GhostScript and GhostView (Windows and Unix) |
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| PostScript files are commonly used in the internet. If you have a PostScript printer, you can send the file to the printer directly. Otherwise, you need GhostScript and GhostView to view and print them. Here are Windows version of GhostScript and GhostView and the complete source code of GhostScript and GhostView for Linux (it is supposed to work on some other Unix platforms, such as HP_UX, SunOS, etc. You can make a try). | ||||
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Tar Archiving Utilitie (MS-DOS and Windows) |
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| Tar archiveing program is designed to store and extract files from an archive file known as a tarfile. A tarfile maybe made on a tape drive, however, it is also common to write a tarfile to a normal file which is now used to pack multiple files into a single file for internet file transferring. To download the softwares, click the following links for appropriate system. | ||||
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