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From: bmilliga@nmsu.edu (Brook Milligan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: ghostview errors on netbsd
Date: 3 Nov 1994 16:28:48 GMT
Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
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I am trying to install ghostview v1.5 on a netbsd 0.9 system
(ghostscript v2.6.1 is installed already).  It compiles fine, but when
I run it I get the following pair of messages:

	gs: Malformed ghostview color property.
	Error: PostScript interpreter failed in main window.

Running it in the debugger (gdb) it seems as if there is a broken pipe
when ghostview forks and executes ghostscript, but I am not really
sure what is happening there.  (Can one debug a child after a fork?)

Any suggestions on how to fix this problem are welcome.  Thanks.

-- 
Brook Milligan	                   bmilliga@nmsu.edu
Department of Biology              505-646-7980
New Mexico State University        505-646-5665 FAX
Las Cruces, New Mexico  88003