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Re: Cannot run PS-files with GS2.5.2 on VMS5.5

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From: L. Peter Deutsch
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 05:38
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> Hi everybody,
> yesterday I compiled the GS2.5.2 on my VAX. I made only ONE change in
> the VMS-CC.MAK-file, that was changing the supported device from X11 to
> EPSON. Well, after making GS.EXE, I tried three PS-files with it and
> all of them stopped with the same error. Here's the protocol of
> ALPHABET.PS (was delivered with GS):
> $ set def dua0:[temp]
> $ gs :== $dua0:[temp.gs252]gs.exe
> $ def gs_lib "dua0:[temp.restore];dua0:[temp.gs252]"
> $ def gs_lib_default "dua0:[temp.restore];dua0:[temp.gs252]"
> $ gs alphabet
> 
> Initializing... done.
> Error: /undefinedfilename in --file--
> Operand stack:
>    (alphabet)  (r)
> Execution stack:
>     %interp_exit    --nostringval--  --nostringval--  false  --nostringval--  
> --nostringval--
> Dictionary stack:
>     391/479  4/200
> Ghostscript 2.5.2 (9/20/92)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<2>quit

Ghostscript tried to open the file you specified -- the file named
alphabet.  If you wanted to process the file named alphabet.ps, you
should have specified alphabet.ps.  Nothing in the Ghostscript
documentation suggests that Ghostscript tries adding extensions to
file names, as far as I know.

L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306
ghost@aladdin.com, ...decwrl!aladdin!ghost ; voice 415-322-0103 ; fax 322-1734
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Subject: Re: Cannot run PS-files with GS2.5.2 on VMS5.5
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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 05:38:48 GMT
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