GS2.5 Doesn't read Macintosh EPS

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From: Mike Moya
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 21:13

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This is what happens 99% of the time:

harbor>> /usr/unsup/gs PostScript.mac
Initializing... done.
Loading Times-Roman font from /usr/unsup/lib/gs/ptmr.gsf... 686416 667137 0
done.
Loading Courier font from /usr/unsup/lib/gs/fonts/ncrr.gsf... 746416 723274
0 done.
Loading Helvetica font from /usr/unsup/lib/gs/phvr.gsf... 766416 761613 0
done.
%%[|0|]%%Error: /invalidfont in -dicttype-
Operand stack:
    143.999  67.9998  0  0  0  1  0  0  0  0  1  1  null  null  0  0  0  1 
0  0  1  0  0  1  0  0  1  0  0  1.08435  0  -0  1.08451  32.5305  32.6868 
/Times-Roman  -dicttype-  /Times-Roman
Execution stack:
    %interp_exit    --nostringval--  --nostringval--  false 
--nostringval--  --nostringval--  false  --nostringval--  --nostringval-- 
--nostringval--  false  --nostringval--  --nostringval--  --nostringval-- 
--nostringval--  --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
    461/479  13/200  238/270  11/25  461/479  12/12
Ghostscript 2.5 (8/18/92)
  Copyright (C) 1990, 1992 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.
  All rights reserved.
Distributed by Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Ghostscript comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file LICENSE for details.
GS<38>

The font it croaks on will change with different files...

Another problem is that when driving GS from a program (popen) in quiet
mode (-q ) It still prints a single "GS>" to the screen after completion of
the GS execution. Any suggestions?
--moya

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Subject: GS2.5 Doesn't read Macintosh EPS
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Date: 15 Sep 92 21:13:13 GMT
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