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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Path: sserve!cserve.cs.adfa.oz.au!wkt
From: wkt@cserve.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey)
Subject: Re: ghostscript_bin problems?
Message-ID: <1993Dec31.011244.7753@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>
Sender: news@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy
References:  <2fsk8n$alv@MICRO-HEART-OF-GOLD.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1993 01:12:44 GMT

In article <2fsk8n$alv@MICRO-HEART-OF-GOLD.MIT.EDU>, shawn@MICRO-HEART-OF-GOLD.MIT.EDU (Shawn F. Mckay) writes:
|> Howdy. I retreived the ghostscript_bin archive from freebsd.cdrom.com,
|> and when installed I get the following problem by simply typing "gs"
|> or anything related to gs.. (With DISPLAY set):
|> 
|> Initializing... Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in %set_screen_continue
|> Operand stack:
|>     0.0546875  true  --nostringval--
|> 
|

I also got this (running NetBSD 0.9), and it persisted after a full 
recompilation. I've gone back to a 2.5.2 binary which still works.

Cheers,
	Warren
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