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Problem with Gswin.exe 2.5.2 for Windows 3.1
#432
Author: Danny Guy Frezza
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 00:13
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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?

-- 

Dan Frezza
Internet: bz223@cleveland.Freenet.Edu
Re: Problem with Gswin.exe 2.5.2 for Windows 3.1
#435
Author: Peter Mckinney
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 17:20
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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?
|> 
|> -- 
|> 
|> Dan Frezza
|> Internet: bz223@cleveland.Freenet.Edu

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.

Good luck,

	- Pete McKinney
____________________________________________________________________________
| 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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Re: Problem with Gswin.exe 2.5.2 for Windows 3.1
#436
Author: 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
____________________________________________________________________________
| 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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