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GSWin General Protection Fault

#319
From: Jim Talley
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 23:01
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I just downloaded and installed Ghostscript 2.5 on my Compaq Portable
386.  The DOS versions (8088 and 80386) of the executable seem to work
quite well, but as soon as I try to fire up the pre-compiled Windows
version, GSWin, under Windows 3.1, I get a General Protection Fault.
The GPF occurs in the Win87Em.dll dynamic link library (at 0001:0293).
Frankly, I'm puzzled as to why the 80x87 emulator is even loaded since
I have an 80387 (Intel) in the computer.

Is anyone else experiencing this behavior?  Does anyone know how to
make it go away?  I can document the problem better with Dr. Watson,
if that would help, but I don't have the BC++ (or any other Windows C
compiler) with which to make a new executable.

Any help is appreciated.  Thanks.
					-- Jim


P.S.  Sorry if this message appears twice.  I posted several days ago
(with everything apparently going well) and the message just never
appeared on my news spool.

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                           Jim Talley
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MCC -- Neural Networks          |       Linguistics Dept.
3500 W. Balcones Ctr. Dr.       |       Calhoun Hall, 501
P.O. Box 200195                 |       Univ. of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX  78720               |       Austin, TX  78712
(512)338-3566                   |       (512)836-1539 (home)
talley@mcc.com                  |       jtalley@emx.cc.utexas.edu
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                           Jim Talley
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MCC -- Carnot Proj.             |       Linguistics Dept.
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From: talley@mcc.com (Jim Talley)
Subject: GSWin General Protection Fault
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