From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 28 11:49:55 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA25520 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Jul 1995 11:49:55 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA25508 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 1995 11:49:48 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id CAA25780; Sat, 29 Jul 1995 02:48:04 +0800 Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 02:48:04 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: "bo (b.) xiao" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any one got ghostview work? In-Reply-To: <"7195 Thu Jul 27 15:43:50 1995"@bnr.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 27 Jul 1995, bo (b.) xiao wrote: > > I have tried both the package and the port of ghostview, no luck. > Compile of ghostscript and ghostview reports no error. Firing up > is fine but gv does not response to my clicks. Giving the ps file > in command line yields: > > Can't find initialization file gs_init.ps. > Error: PostScript interpreter failed in main window. > > Alone the same line, xdvi crashes my X server. :( I compiled Aladdin Ghostscript 3.12 (and the corresponding ghostview) and xdvi from sources and both work marvellously. I don't recall having to fiddle with the Makefiles or source code. -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org