what is /usr/local/bin/gsc ?

[Yuri Pankov]

Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> Hi
> 
> What is /usr/local/bin/gsc ?
> 
> I run FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #2 on compaq armada laptop.
> 
> When I send a job for printing I see gsc process running:
> 
>   PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU COMMAND
> [skip]
> 99954 daemon        1 117    0 27244K 19000K RUN      0:05 30.08% gsc
> 
> % which gsc
> /usr/local/bin/gsc
> %

First, check if there's manpage with description for gsc :-) You can 
also check which package installed that file:
pkg_info -W /usr/local/bin/gsc
(and as you mentioned printing, I'd think it was installed by 
ghostscript package) and follow the URL in pkg-descr.

> However, I cannot find any info on gsc.
> The latest I've found is from 5.2-release,
> some gsc(4) -- a device driver for a handy scanner.
> I doubt this is it.
> 
> Could somebody tell me what gsc is and what it does. 
> 
> many thanks
> anton
> 


HTH,
Yuri