From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 10 17:58:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD49037B502 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 17:58:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 62463 invoked by uid 100); 11 Oct 2000 00:58:36 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14819.47932.77001.364521@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:58:36 -0500 (CDT) To: media@ct1.nai.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: common packages not working In-Reply-To: <51278425@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG media@ct1.nai.net writes: > At 8:09 AM +0400 10/10/00, Igor Roboul wrote: > Thanx :) I think my problem is that I need X installed to run ghostscript. That's certainly not true. Of course, if you want to install the X drivers, you may need X - but that's a different problem. > Actually, I wanted ghostscript so I could print the documentation needed to > figure how to get Xfree86 up and running. I seem to be having lots of > chicken and egg problems -- even the README for lynx is in html!! w3m doesn't have that problem. The README is ascii. The MANUAL is html :-).