The resource databases described in `Programming the Display
PostScript System with X (Appendix A:  Locating PostScript Resources)'
from Adobe Systems provides a convenient way to organize PostScript
type1 fonts, their AFM files and encoding vectors on a central
place of a UNIX workstation. The databases can be created with the
program makepsres(1) from the directories containing them.  The PS
resource library (PSres.c+PSres.h) provides the necessary functions
to get the absolute filename of a resource in the database.  Because
Adobe's software can be freely redistributed as long as the copyrights
(see PSres.c) are obeyed, I have used a slightly modified version
for ps2pk. These modifications were needed:
  - to use it on MSDOS
  - to add the ability to use binary resources (PFB and PFM fonts)
  - to recognize encoding vectors if the filename ends with ".enc"

To prevent any confusion with the original makepsres(1) and to fit
better in the MSDOS name space I have renamed the utility for
creating databases into mkpsres(1). The sources and documentation
of the original DPS software is available through Adobe's ftp server
(see the file ADOBE).

--Piet
November 1995