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Date:      Tue, 2 May 2000 17:14:48 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
To:        Bruce Burden <brucegb@realtime.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: problems with Ghostscript5/55/6
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10005021711560.3805-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200005021452.JAA32528@sullivan.realtime.net>

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On Tue, 2 May 2000, Bruce Burden wrote:

> Ghostscript55:
> 
> 	It will build and install. When I run "gs", I get:
> 
> bash-2.03# gs /usr/local/share/ghostscript/5.50/examples/tiger.ps
> Aladdin Ghostscript 5.50 (1998-9-16)
> Copyright (C) 1998 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.  All rights reserved.
> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
> >>showpage, press <return> to continue<<
> 
> GS>
> 
> 
> 	And there it sits. Nothing happending. ps -x shows:
> 
>  3020  p5  I+     0:00.70 gs /usr/local/share/ghostscript/5.50/examples/tiger.ps

As far as I know, GS 5.5 is build w/o default output device; e.g. try to

setenv GS_DEVICE x11	or	export GS_DEVICE=x11

before starting gs. Maybe something similar applies to GS6.

Regards

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