Re: Bug#161949: ITP: psconcat -- Easy concatenation of postscript-based file formats

[Neil Spring <nspring@cs.washington.edu>]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 08:08:11AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Neil Spring <nspring@cs.washington.edu> [2002.09.23.0216
> +0200]:
>> How does psconcat differ from:
>>   a2ps -1 a.ps b.ps -o concatenated.ps
>> ?

> Probably not. But when I needed this concatenation once, nobody on
> this list and two others mentioned it, and I didn't know.

Sorry I didn't see your earlier message.

> So you think I should keep it out of the archive?

I just wanted to make sure you knew there was another tool
to do roughly the same thing before deciding to maintain a
small script.  I think it's up to you to decide whether it
should go in the archive.

IMHO, the real problem is that psmerge doesn't do what folks
want and alternatives that work, like a2ps, are hard to
find.  If you think psconcat is going to be easier to find,
go ahead and package it, but you might consider referring to
a2ps in the description so that folks can use its extra
features (e.g., 2-up printing) should they outgrow psconcat.

thanks,
-neil