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Re: Problem with Xdvi using Xfree 86
- From: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 08:42:42 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Problem with Xdvi using Xfree 86
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
--- Alexander Gottwald <alexander.gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Bertrand Muquet wrote:
>
> > Hello
> >
> > I've got a problem running xdvi with Xfree 86
> > When Xdvi shall display .eps files, it does not work
> > and I get the fwg msg:
> > gs: unknown device:X11
>
> This message is coming from ghostscript. This gs is not compiled
> with X11
> support.
>
> Recompile ghostscript to use X11 as output device. Or ask the
> maintainer
> of ghostscript if he could provide packages with X11 support.
>
Actually, this is not true. The ghostscript-x11 package contains the
X11 gs binary, and installs it in /usr/X11R6/bin. So all he has to
do, if it is possible, is to tell Xdvi to use that binary instead. I
have no idea how to do that, though.
Cheers,
Nicholas
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