This is version 4.0 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 were added by miguel@imag.fr, and posted
in comp.sources.misc (Volume 10, Issue 73) as version 3.0.

In version 4.0 many features were removed again.  We can have separate
programs that handle generic n-up printing, there is no need to do it
in this program.  (Such a program, called ``up'' and written in perl,
was posted to comp.sources.misc (Vol 8, Issue 95) last year.)  A2ps
and its prologue file were enhanced to produce conforming PostScript,
which is required by up, for instance.

Installation should be straightforward...

The a2ps distribution consists of the following files:

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

Version of a2ps was posted to USENET by Miguel Santana:

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

Version 4 was simplified and enhanced by Tor Lillqvist:

    tml@tik.vtt.fi
