In my attempt to learn postscript, I've been stymied by Ghostscript's
rather primitive interface (which is to say, it's not built for
interactive use).  So, last night and this morning I threw a shell
around Ghostscript, and now I have a command history and keyword
completion, the works.

  http://www.*-*-*.com/ ~jdf/

Look under "Technical Matters" for the Ghostscript Shell.

You'll need a Unixish OS, a recent Perl, a couple of Perl modules, and
Ghostscript.

Now I can get back to learning Postscript.  I'm tired of

  /Helvetica-Bold findfont 36 scalefont setfont
  20 20 moveto (Hello, world!) show

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http://www.*-*-*.com/ ~jdf