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Hercules driver

#86
From: David M Pesetsky
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 18:47
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I want to run Ghostscript on my 386SX PC with a Hercules graphics card,
outputting to screen.

I have the MSDOS executables and what I think are all the relevant files
from the various *.zip archives.  From reading the doc files and even
grepping them for references to Hercules, I gather that I need some
sort of driver, and I gather that the characters BGI somehow figure into
this.

I do not own C (I'm not a programmer), and thus am not equipped to build
my own version.  Should I forget it, is there something I'm missing, or
both?

Also, a possibly related question.  The program GS.EXE loads and runs,
though without showing me my document, obviously.  On the other hand,
GS386.EXE gives the error message:

	DOS/4GW Protected Mode Run-time   Version 1.3
	Copyright (c) Rational Systems, Inc. 1990-1991
	DOS/4GW Fatal error: Can't initialize loader[1]  -- LINEXE_LOADER

What is this about?

Thanks,

David Pesetsky
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From: pesetsk@athena.mit.edu (David M Pesetsky)
Subject: Hercules driver
Message-ID: <1992Apr9.184753.7050@athena.mit.edu>
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Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 18:47:53 GMT
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