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Date:      Tue, 2 May 2000 20:35:29 +0530
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To:        Bruce Burden <brucegb@realtime.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: problems with Ghostscript5/55/6
Message-ID:  <20000502203529.A1682@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
In-Reply-To: <200005021452.JAA32528@sullivan.realtime.net>; from brucegb@realtime.net on Tue, May 02, 2000 at 09:52:43AM -0500
References:  <200005021452.JAA32528@sullivan.realtime.net>

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> 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>

<snip>

> 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--

<snip>

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.


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