Changes in the most recent release of Ghostscript

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Version 6.01 (2000-03-17)

This is a bug-fix release for 6.0. This release fixes the following reported bugs: #101555, #101813, #101816, #101818, #101827, #101830, #101871, #101853, #101906, #101949, #101950, #102003, #102004, #102038, #102081, #102936.

Incompatible changes

(Platforms) - OpenVMS using VAX C is no longer supported. (OpenVMS with DEC C and gcc are still supported.) (Drivers) - The third argument of psdf_set_color is changed from const char * to const psdf_set_color_commands_t *. (Interpreter) - The non-standard feature of writing dictionaries in binary object output is now disabled by default, but can now be enabled dynamically. (Library) - The definition of TRANSPARENCY_PER_H_P is moved from gdevmrop.h to gsropt.h. - The handling of the source opaque, texture transparent case of RasterOp when TRANSPARENCY_PER_H_P is defined is changed slightly.

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Ghostscript version 6.01, 17 March 2000