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I just ftp'ed Ghostscript 2.1, compiled it and it works fine
with the examples included with the distribution. But when I
tried my TeX - files (made with dvips 5.4) it had problems.

I'm using a SUN Sparc IPC (SunOS 4.1) with cc and the 'normal'
X11R4, not OpenWindows.

It works fine when \special include raw PostScript code, and
works when  \special{ps: plotfile afile.ps} is used but
fails when \special include a PostScript file containing an image.
For example using \psfig1.2

\psfig{figure=fig1a.ps,height=5in,width=5in}

will print the figure, but bomb on completion with:

% gs test.ps
Reading ghost.ps... ghost.ps read.
>>showpage, press <return> to continue<<

Loading font file phvr.gsf... done.
Error: /undefined in showpage
  ostack:
  estack:  operator 4a0c  --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false
--nostringval--
--nostringval-- false --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval--
  dstack: 319/401 2/200 100/200 14/200 87/100
Ghostscript 2.1  Copyright (C) 1990 Aladdin Enterprises,
   Menlo Park, CA.  All rights reserved.
Distributed by Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Ghostscript comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details.
GS>

Is this a bug in dvips? weakness in Ghostscript? my ignorance?

Any tips are a help!

Mark

p.s. This is Dieterich Erwin's problem also, but his solution does not
     appear to be the answer here.