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I am shocked at how much #bitrot their is. I've been looking for some information on #postscript and all the good stuff has pretty much disappeared. After much hunting, I've managed to find some of it, but there's still much missing. Heck, buried somewhere in my storage are the PS SDK 3.5" floppy disks, but little of it is online (or if it is, its hard to find). If anybody knows where I can get the example files that were part of the colored books I’d be very grateful for a pointer. (1/2)

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For me, it was during a lull in my workload at the #IBM Hursley lab in the UK when I worked my way through the O'Reilly #sed & #awk book (the one with the two lorises on the cover).

I'm guessing it was 1995 because my annual birdwatching summary at the start of the next year switched from a fixed column text document to formatting in #Postscript. My first big awk project was to process the underlying data to generate a PS document (something I also learned in the same downtime period).