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Re: gv


On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Rohan Shah wrote:

> Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
>
> >>>>>>Rohan Shah writes:
> >
> >     > i'm having trouble congifuring gv for cygwin. when i open a postsrcipt
> >     > file using gv, it gives me the error:
> >     > "Error: Postscript interpreter failed in main window"
> >
> >     > any ideas? thanks in advance.
> >
> > Remove /usr/bin/gs (or /bin/gs) from your installation. The one in
> > /usr/X11R6/bin is the right executable to use with gv.
>
> OK I'm screwed, when I do: "type -a gs" i get:
>
> $ type -a gs
> gs is /usr/bin/gs
> gs is /bin/gs
> gs is /usr/X11R6/bin/gs
> gs is ./gs
> gs is /usr/bin/gs
> gs is /usr/X11R6/bin/gs
> gs is ./gs
> gs is ./gs
> gs is ./gs
> gs is ./gs
> gs is ./gs
> gs is ./gs
>
> $
>
> how do I get rid of all the entries except "gs is /usr/X11R6/bin/gs"? Is
> this what I have to do to get gs (and gv) to work?

Why do you need to get rid of them?  Just make sure /usr/X11R6/bin/gs is
the first one.  Try

export PATH="/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH"
gv &

If this works, edit your /etc/profile to put /usr/X11R6/bin before
/usr/bin and /bin in your PATH.
HTH,
	Igor
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