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Article #391Re: Cannot run PS-files with GS2.5.2 on VMS5.5
From: L. Peter Deutsch
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 05:38
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 "Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery."
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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!convex!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!aladdin.COM!ghost From: ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch) Subject: Re: Cannot run PS-files with GS2.5.2 on VMS5.5 Message-ID: <9210062238.1.UUL1.3#5127@aladdin.com> Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet References: ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch) Distribution: gnu Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 05:38:48 GMT Approved: bug-ghostscript@prep.ai.mit.edu Lines: 42