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Re: gs.exe missing from ghostscript package?
Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
Brian Dessent wrote:
> "Lee D.Rothstein" wrote:
>
>> 'gs.exe' the Ghostscript interpreter is missing from my configuration.
>
> That's because there is not supposed to be a gs.exe. The ghostscript
> packages use the alternatives facility, which means /usr/bin/gs is a
> symlink to /etc/alternatives/gs which is a symlink to either
> /usr/bin/gs-x11.exe or /usr/bin/gs-native.exe depending on how you've
> configured your system. Either way, it should work to execute 'gs',
BTB, I first did a search on cygwin.com for the package containing gs, and
it said that there was such a file in the ghostscript package, not
ghostscript-base.
Thanks
It does not! ps2pdf invokes gs, and gs doesn't execute
I.e..:
$ which -a gs
which: no gs in
(.:/local/TextPad:/local/Scripts:/usr/bin:/bin:/local/usr/bin:/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/sbin:/zzz/c/Wind
ows:/zzz/c/Windows/system32:/local/bagels/bin:/zzup/ACDSee_10:/home/ldr/bin)
But:
$ ls -l gs*
-rwxr-x---+ 1 ldr Users 11148288 Apr 13 11:29 gs-native.exe
-rwxr-x---+ 1 ldr Users 11212800 Apr 13 11:29 gs-x11.exe
-rwxrwxrwt+ 1 ldr root 125 Aug 3 20:07 gs.lnk
-rwxr-x---+ 1 ldr Users 376 Apr 13 11:27 gsbj
-rwxr-x---+ 1 ldr Users 378 Apr 13 11:27 gsdj
-rwxr-x---+ 1 ldr Users 381 Apr 13 11:27 gsdj500
-rwxrwxrwt+ 1 ldr root 21504 May 5 2005 gsftopk.exe
-rwxrwxrwt+ 1 ldr root 1269 Apr 5 12:49 gsl-config
-rwxrwxrwt+ 1 ldr root 4096 Apr 5 12:49 gsl-histogram.exe
-rwxrwxrwt+ 1 ldr root 14848 Apr 5 12:49 gsl-randist.exe
-rwxr-x---+ 1 ldr Users 379 Apr 13 11:27 gslj
-rwxr-x---+ 1 ldr Users 376 Apr 13 11:27 gslp
-rwxr-x---+ 1 ldr Users 303 Apr 13 11:27 gsnd
What causes the link to have its extension exposed and become
inoperable within Cygwin? Even after I did a complete reinstall.
I've seen this before. Does it have to do with the permissions?
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I relinked 'gs' to 'gs-native' and all's swell that ends swell! ;-)
Thanks.
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Lee D. Rothstein
VeriTech
Merrimack, NH 03054
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