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Bug in gs or dfaxhigh

#190
From: Jonathan Lewin
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 21:11
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Hi, I'm pretty sure this is a bug, but I can't figure out
whether it's in gs or the dfaxhigh driver.  I think it's
gs, because I can sometimes replicate it using other devices.

I'm using a SGI machine, I compiled gs using both cc and gcc
and got the same error, and am using gs version 2.4.1. The
test file below is simply 2 lines of regular text; the text1
file is a postscript file that I know is OK, as I looked at
it carefully, have printed it to a QMS printer, and displayed
in the ghostscript box!

As you can see, the only difference between the two commands below is
in the name of the outfile; in the first command, it's called fax, in
the second faxj.  It makes no sense to me why this miniscule difference
makes the whole command crash.

% /usr/local/bin/ghostscript/gs -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=dfaxhigh
-sOUTPUTFILE=/tmp/fax /tmp/faxda14744
Unrecoverable error: unknownerror in setdevice
Operand stack:
    --nostringval--
%
%  /usr/local/bin/ghostscript/gs -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=dfaxhigh
-sOUTPUTFILE=/tmp/faxj /tmp/faxda14744
GS>quit


If anyone can tell me what to fix, I'd appreciate it a lot,
because I'd like to get the software I'm working on that
uses this (fax software) up and running.

Regards,

Jonathan
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From: lewin@brokaw.lcs.mit.edu (Jonathan Lewin)
Subject: Bug in gs or dfaxhigh
Message-ID: <1992Aug7.211154.26774@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1992 21:11:54 GMT
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