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Re: Problem with Gswin.exe 2.5.2 for Windows 3.1

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From: Peter Mckinney
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 17:37
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In article <Sep28.172037.59259@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>, pm860605@longs.lance.colostate.edu (Peter Mckinney) writes:
|> In article <1a5imiINNeov@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, bz223@cleveland.FReenet.EDU (Danny Guy Frezza) writes:
|> |> As the title suggest, since I loaded Gswin.exe 2.5.2 and the accompanied
|> |> files for it, when I attempt to run it in Windows 3.1 (Enhanced mode),
|> |> it appears to start loading for a moment and then flips right out. Tried
|> |> loading several times, but for a brief moment, it says something about not
|> |> initializing for 256? Now, Gswin.exe for 2.5.1 worked with its accompanied
|> |> files, but this version won't. My windows setup is for 800x600x16.
|> |> Can anyone suggest what is suddenly happening in 2.5.2 that didn't in 2.5.1?
|> 
|> Try changing the string near the top of the gs_init.ps file that
|> reads "252" to "251".  I think the GSWIN.EXE binary is still looking
|> for a version 2.5.1 init file.  This fixed the problem for me.  Note,
|> howver that this will create the same problem for the DOS binaries
|> GS386.EXE, etc. because they correctly look for the "252" string.
 
According to a post on comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives
dated Mon, 28 Sep 92 00:09:12 GMT-)1:44, a corrected
archive of the GSWIN.EXE binary has been upoaded to simtel20.

	- Pete McKinney
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| Peter J. McKinney                     pm860605@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu |
| Electrohydrodynamic Laboratory                                           |
| Fluid Mechanics and Wind Engineering Program                             |
| Civil Engineering Department                                             |
| Colorado State University                                                |
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From: pm860605@longs.lance.colostate.edu (Peter Mckinney)
Subject: Re: Problem with Gswin.exe 2.5.2 for Windows 3.1
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