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Many people have reported an error message
	/unknownerror in setdevice
when using the 32-bit MS-DOS version of Ghostscript.

This message is the result of two different problems in Ghostscript.
First, the error name should be /VMerror or /limitcheck rather then
/unknownerror.  Fixing this properly requires minor changes in
several different places; the fix will be in release 2.5.  Second,
this error is being produced because Ghostscript is insisting on
allocating a full 1 Mb buffer for the printer band list; on systems
with less than about 3 Mb of RAM, this is unlikely to succeed.
Fortunately, there is a simple workaround.  Line 71 of gdevprn.c in
release 2.4.1 currently reads:

			if ( (space >>= 1) < PRN_BUFFER_SPACE )

Change this to:

			if ( (space >>= 1) < 10000 )

A fix equivalent to this will also be included in 2.5.

L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306
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