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Re: Ghostview 1.1 released

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From: Paul De Bra
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 10:14
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In article <1992Mar25.203908.4906@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> tim@cs.wisc.edu (Tim Theisen) writes:
>    Ghostview-1.1 is available via anonymous ftp from:
>	prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/ghostview-1.1.tar.Z
>	appenzell.cs.wisc.edu:/pub/ghostview-1.1.tar.Z
> ...

Since there is no gnu.ghostview.bug group yet, i'll just mention the
following (minor) problems here:

I tried (and succeeded) compiling and running ghostview on sVr4 (386)
but only after correcting a few glitches:

1. The name "st_mtime" cannot be used with sVr4. The file <stat.h>
   redefines it as st_mtim.sec, not just in the stat structure, but
   simply by a #define, thus also applying to your own st_mtime fields.
 
   cure: rename st_mtime to something else.

2. In Path.c the function getuid is used which should be declared as
   returning the type uid_t (which happens to be long on sVr4-386)

3. The file setenv.c uses bcopy instead of memcpy.
   bcopy need not exist, memcpy should exist (but doesn't exist everywhere).
   a #define bcopy(a, b, c) memcpy(b, a, c) could cure this.

Otherwise ghostview works just fine on AT&T sVr4.0 (2.1) with x11r5.

Paul.
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Subject: Re: Ghostview 1.1 released
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