From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 2 8:15:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 83A6437B8AC for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 08:15:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 1711 invoked by uid 211); 2 May 2000 15:05:29 -0000 Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 20:35:29 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Bruce Burden Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with Ghostscript5/55/6 Message-ID: <20000502203529.A1682@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <200005021452.JAA32528@sullivan.realtime.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200005021452.JAA32528@sullivan.realtime.net>; from brucegb@realtime.net on Tue, May 02, 2000 at 09:52:43AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 to continue<< > > GS> > bash-2.03# gs /usr/local/share/ghostscript/6.01/examples/tiger.ps > Aladdin Ghostscript 6.01 (2000-03-17) > Copyright (C) 2000 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA. All rights reserved. > This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. > Error: /invalidfileaccess in --.outputpage-- Try gs -sDEVICE=x11 /usr/local/share/ghostscript/6.01/examples/tiger.ps gs --help will give you available options. For viewing stuff on the screen, install a front-end such as gv -- there's no point in messing with gs directly. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message