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From: daniel@werple.apana.org.au (Daniel Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: ghostscript_bin problems?
Date: 1 Jan 1994 09:58:03 +1100
Organization: werple public-access unix, Melbourne
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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--

>Any thoughts on where to look?

Recompiling the source *without* any optimisation fixed the problem for
me.  (NetBSD-0.9)

Daniel Harris.
daniel@werple.apana.org.au