If you mean
https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/unix/security/docs/usenix/usenix/winter88/x-helloworld.ps.gz
I ran ps2pdf on it (via homebrew) and it opened right up.



On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
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> also, related, I did find the original, wonderful, paper about writing hello, world in x11: it was a compressed .ps; it uncompressed fine but almost nothing I have could work with the .ps.
>
> gs on osx, evince on linux, ... nothing liked it.
>
> Plan 9 ghostscript shows it just fine.
>
> so if you get that old paper and have trouble viewing it, there is a fix.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 9:47 AM Daria Phoebe Brashear <shadow@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Actually, here ya go:
>> https://archive.org/details/login_jan94
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM Daria Phoebe Brashear <shadow@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Who's got old issues of login? Mine probably were lost when I moved
>> > out of my ex's place.
>> >
>> > J. S. Haemer.
>> > Imake rhymes with mistake.
>> > ;login:, 19(1):32-3, Jan-Feb 1994.
>> >
>> > On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 12:09 PM ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > I know it's out there, I just can't find it.
>> > >
>> > > It's also called the "imake rhymes with mistake" paper,  a nice companion to "going for baroque..."
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Daria Phoebe Brashear
>> > AuriStor, Inc
>> > dariaphoebe.com
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Daria Phoebe Brashear
>> AuriStor, Inc
>> dariaphoebe.com



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