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From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: supprt for compressed executables
Date: 14 Feb 1995 04:37:10 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl., Montana
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Message-ID: <3hpc1m$8uu@helena.MT.net>
References: <WCP.95Feb10161936@lpds.lpds.com>
Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net

In article <WCP.95Feb10161936@lpds.lpds.com>,
Walter C. Pelissero <wcp@lpds.sublink.org> wrote:
>I compiled a FreeBSD 2.0 kernel with the gzip pseudo-device but
>sometime when I try to execute gs (ghostscript 2.6) the system says:
>
>Output=0 Inflate_error=1 igz.error=0 error2=0 where=0
>
>Actually I never experienced this problem running gs from the shell
>prompt. It normally shows up when gs is run from sendfax (flexfax).
>
>Does anyone know how I can fix this?

I think Poul just committed the fix to this in the -current tree.  If
you really need the fix, I think you could probably grab the file
kern/inflate.c from the -current sources which I'm pretty sure has the fix
in it and pull the patch out.


Nate

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