HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch)
Subject: Re: Changes to Utopia, Courier Type 1 font programs (2.4.1 to 2.5)?
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 04:48:21 GMT

Re <9209030426.AA18298@cookie-crisp>
<182r85INN4hk@agate.berkeley.edu>:

> I noticed that the Courier and Utopia Type 1 fonts provided with GS 2.5
> have been (at least) reformatted from those provided with GS 2.4.1.
> The 2.4.1 versions had some pseudo-structured comments at the top, and
> used eexec; the 2.5 versions don't have the structured comments, and
> don't use eexec.
> 
> Any particular reason for the change?

The 2.5 versions are a bit smaller and load considerably faster.  I
didn't see any reason to keep the eexec encryption.  I also got rid
of some mystifying unmapped characters with peculiar 8-character
names.  Nothing else was changed.

L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306
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	    "Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery."


Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: jtkohl@cs.berkeley.edu (John T Kohl)
Subject: Changes to Utopia, Courier Type 1 font programs (2.4.1 to 2.5)?
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: gnu
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:48:05 GMT

I noticed that the Courier and Utopia Type 1 fonts provided with GS 2.5
have been (at least) reformatted from those provided with GS 2.4.1.
The 2.4.1 versions had some pseudo-structured comments at the top, and
used eexec; the 2.5 versions don't have the structured comments, and
don't use eexec.

Any particular reason for the change?
--
John Kohl <jtkohl@cs.berkeley.edu>
UC Berkeley CS grad student
Member of the League for Programming Freedom--details: league@prep.ai.mit.edu
(The above opinions are MINE.  Don't put my words in somebody else's mouth!)

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: jwhite@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Joseph White)
Subject: Problems with Ghostscript and LaserJet II
Reply-To: jwhite@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Joseph White)
Organization: Annapolis Detachment, CARDEROCKDIV, NSWC  Code 2723 
	      (formerly David Taylor Research Center, Annapolis MD)
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:40:38 GMT

This has probably already been covered, but this is the first time that
I have looked at this newsgroup, and I am a shorttime ghostscript user,
so please bear with me.

I am having problems using gs386.exe and a HP LaserJet Series II on
a Zenith 386/25Mhz w/20Mb Ram, msdos ver 5.0.  Unfortunately, I don't
have access to a C complier(not watcom or borland anyway), so I can
not apply any source code patches and re compile 8-(.  The specific
problems I am having are:

1.  Printing some files, the very first line of text at the top of the
page is cut in half, with only the bottom half showing.  This has happened
using both ghostscript version 2.4.1 and 2.5 (gs.exe and gs386.exe).
 The same file printed on a postscript printer prints the whole line.
Is there anyway to correct/adjust the page margins to slightly increase
the top margin?

2.  Using version 2.5, the spacing between the lines of text is missing.
That's the best way, I can describe it.

In both problems, the file in question, is generated by the same program
that generated the phonebook for the entire Division, I'm using it to
print a much smaller subset (1 page vs 100+ pages), so it's all text.

I'm sure that the second problem will be fixed in ver 2.5.1, but the
first problem has been in both versions I have used, so I'm not sure
anyone is aware of it.  I can email a copy of the file, to anyone that
might need it to fix the first problem.

Thank you for putting up with me.  Know that I know about this newsgroup,
I continue to view it.

Joe White
jwhite@oasys.dt.navy.mil

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: jason@alpha.ee.ufl.edu (Jason Nadrowski)
Subject: Where can I get it compiled?
Organization: EE Dept at UF
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 20:08:19 GMT

Where can I get a MSDOS/WINDOWS COMPILED version of Ghostscript?

Thanks,

Jason.

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: talley@mcc.com (Jim Talley)
Subject: GSWin General Protection Fault
Followup-To: gnu.ghostscript.bug
Reply-To: talley@mcc.com
Organization: MCC, Austin, TX
Distribution: gnu
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 23:01:51 GMT

I just downloaded and installed Ghostscript 2.5 on my Compaq Portable
386.  The DOS versions (8088 and 80386) of the executable seem to work
quite well, but as soon as I try to fire up the pre-compiled Windows
version, GSWin, under Windows 3.1, I get a General Protection Fault.
The GPF occurs in the Win87Em.dll dynamic link library (at 0001:0293).
Frankly, I'm puzzled as to why the 80x87 emulator is even loaded since
I have an 80387 (Intel) in the computer.

Is anyone else experiencing this behavior?  Does anyone know how to
make it go away?  I can document the problem better with Dr. Watson,
if that would help, but I don't have the BC++ (or any other Windows C
compiler) with which to make a new executable.

Any help is appreciated.  Thanks.
					-- Jim


P.S.  Sorry if this message appears twice.  I posted several days ago
(with everything apparently going well) and the message just never
appeared on my news spool.

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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: bjorn@prima.met.kth.se (Bjorn Jonsson)
Subject: problem building GS 2.5 on VAX/VMS 5.5 using VAX C 3.1
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 15:41:27 GMT

I am trying to build GS 2.5 using VAX C on my workstation, but the 
compilation of the files GSFONT.C and GXCACHE.C fails with the message:

  %CC-E-UNDECLARED, "data" is not declared within the scope of this usage.

below is a portion of the compiler output for the file GSFONT.C

_______________________________________________________________________________
METAL>cc/nooptimize/debug gsfont.c
                if ( pfont->data.base.UniqueID != -1 )
%CC-E-UNDECLARED, "data" is not declared within the scope of
                this usage.
                At line number 150 in $8$DUA1:[BJORN.GS25.GS25]GSFONT.C;27.
 
 ... deleted lines ....

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


My setup:
---------
VMS 5.5
DECwindows-Motif 1.1
VAX C 3.1


Any ideas of what could possibly go wrong? 
Is there a workaround?

bjorn@matsc.kth.se



Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: amoreno@unixg.ubc.ca (Andrew Moreno)
Subject: Re: Problems with Ghostscript and LaserJet II
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: gnu
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:35:52 GMT

Hi. I have been having problems running gs386 on a kaypro with a asi
38625sx motherboard with 1 meg of ram. I keep getting the error message
Dos/4gw fatal error can't initialize loader[1] -- linexe_loader
Why is this happening with the dos extender?
It is version 2.5.
Could it be I am using a sx and it doesnt like 16 bit memory?



Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: mfg@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Gordon)
Subject: Segmentation fault when using ppmtops.ps
Organization: Edinburgh University
Distribution: gnu
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 10:25:19 GMT

The following causes a ghostscript 2.5 (on a sparc, compiled with gcc 2.2.1)
to die with a segmentation fault

    bash> gs -dNODISPLAY pstoppm.ps
    GS> 300 300 ppmsetdensity
    GS> (1stage29) ppm1run

Gdb gives the following traceback

Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  mem_open (dev=0x108818) at gdevmem1.c:78
78		   {	*pptr++ = scan_line;
(gdb) where
#0  mem_open (dev=0x108818) at gdevmem1.c:78
#1  0x20ed0 in gx_default_put_props (dev=0x108818, plist=0x1, count=3)
    at gsdevice.c:573
#2  0x1442c in zputdeviceprops (op=0x64488) at zprops.c:88
#3  0x7da4 in interp (pref=0x142f0) at interp.c:515
#4  0x70b8 in gs_interpret (pref=0xf7fff608, user_errors=1, 
    pexit_code=0xf7fff684) at interp.c:181
#5  0x1d1bc in gs_run_string (str=0x27a0 "start", user_errors=1, 
    pexit_code=0xf7fff684) at gsmain.c:178
#6  0x3564 in run_string (str=0x27a0 "start") at gs.c:406
#7  0x296c in main (argc=2, argv=0xf7fff784) at gs.c:195

(gdb) print *pptr
$1 = (unsigned char *) Cannot access memory at address 0x21e000.


Pstoppm works with some files, I can mail a copy of the file that kills
it to anyone interested in tracking down the bug (it's only 15626 bytes).

-- 
                                                         _   _   _    _   _	
Michael Gordon - mfg@castle.ed.ac.uk OR ee.ed.ac.uk     | |_| |_| |__| |_| |   
EE Dept, Edinburgh University                           | . . . .      . . |    
It's not an optical illusion, it just looks like one    |_________|~~|_____|    

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: DAN@innosoft.com (Daniel C. Newman)
Subject: Re: problems building GS 2.5 on a VAX/VMS 5.5 with VAX C 3.1
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 11:12:25 GMT

 I am trying to build GS 2.5 using VAX C on my workstation, but the
> compilation of the files GSFONT.C and GXCACHE.C fails with the message:
>
>   %CC-E-UNDECLARED, "data" is not declared within the scope of this usage.
>
> below is a portion of the compiler output for the file GSFONT.C

>
> ______________________________________________________________________________
_
> METAL>cc/nooptimize/debug gsfont.c
>                 if ( pfont->data.base.UniqueID != -1 )
> %CC-E-UNDECLARED, "data" is not declared within the scope of
>                 this usage.
>                 At line number 150 in $8$DUA1:[BJORN.GS25.GS25]GSFONT.C;27.
>
>  ... deleted lines ....
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
> My setup:
> ---------
> VMS 5.5
> DECwindows-Motif 1.1
> VAX C 3.1

Try upgrading to a more recent version of VAX C.  In the exact same environment
(VMS 5.5, DECwindows Motif 1.1) but VAX C V3.2, gsfont.c compiles just fine for
me without any warnings or errors.

Dan

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: eichi@forty2.physik.unizh.ch (Stefan Eichenberger)
Subject: Re: GS2.5 for 80386 PC interrupted
Organization: Physics Institute, University of Zuerich, Switzerland
Distribution: gnu
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:57:47 GMT

In article <1992Aug23.164344.26373@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> jeusfeld@picasso.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Manfred A. Jeusfeld) writes:
>Alas, when I start gs386.exe then I get a message like
>
>   Initializing ... Unexpected interupt ...
>   <lots of register contents>
>
>and the program aborts....

Well, this may hint to a request for Ghostscript 2.6? I haven't checked 2.5
yet, but the Watcom compilation of 2.4.1, together with the DOS extender 
used in there doesn't seem to like QEMM or such things. Are there chances
to be compatible to VCPI or this other standard by Microsoft (what's it name?)?

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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch)
Subject: Re: keyboard input to gs 2.5
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 23:38:37 GMT

Re <9208260114.AA29337@cookie-crisp>
<9208252257.AA09809@kodiak.cs.caltech.edu>:

> It seems that if the last "token" on a line given at the "GS>" prompt
> is a single character, then it is duplicated.  This did not happen in
> 2.4.1.

Yes, this is a new bug in 2.5, introduced in the course of speeding
up the token scanner.  It will be fixed in 2.5.1.

> Also, if one should happen to type "<space><return>" to the showpage
> prompt, then all subsequent showpage prompts will continue immediately.
> This was also true in 2.4.1.

This is a quasi-feature: the idea is that if you type anything except
a plain <return> in response to the showpage prompt, Ghostscript
assumes it is interpreter input to be processed after the last page.
Suggestions for what should happen in this case are welcome.

L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306
ghost@aladdin.com, ...decwrl!aladdin!ghost ; 415-322-0103 voice ; no fax yet
	    "Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery."


Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: marsden@eta.cs.fsu.edu (Jonathan Marsden)
Subject: Zoom in Ghostview-1.3
Reply-To: marsden@nu.cs.fsu.edu
Organization: Florida State University Computer Science
Distribution: gnu
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 15:49:33 GMT

I recently upgraded to Ghostview-1.3 and Ghostscript-2.5 on a SPARC running
SunOS 4.1.2.  When I attempt to zoom any region under ghostview it appears
that it is working on the zoom, but finally displays only a blank window.  I
was wondering if anyone else has encountered this problem and if so, is
there a simple patch to apply.

Jonathan Marsden
(marsden@cs.fsu.edu)

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: holland@hpl.hp.com (Bill Holland)
Subject: Re: Not quite quiet
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto
Distribution: gnu
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 03:45:02 GMT

In article <BtJG9u.DME@olsen.ch> lichtin@olsen.CH (Martin Lichtin) writes:

> I'm calling GhostScript 2.41 from within other programs, so
> GhostScript should not issue any text if everything goes fine.
> Unfortunately, using the following
>
>    gs -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=dfaxhigh -sOUTPUTFILE='fax.%d' file.ps
>
> still generates the 'GS>' prompt on stdout. Is there a way to avoid
> this?

Add PostScript file name 'quit.ps' as the last file to print:

gs -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=dfaxhigh -sOUTPUTFILE='fax.%d' file.ps quit.ps

The default behavior of ghostscript seems to be to prompt for more files
to print.  File 'quit.ps' is found in the 'ghostscript' directory, and
contains the single line:

quit

Reading this file makes GhostScript quietly terminate.

-Bill Holland <holland@hplwdh.hpl.hp.com>


Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: bodo@hal.nbg.SUb.ORG (Bodo Bauer)
Subject: Re: Zoom in Ghostview-1.3
Organization: Sirius-Kybernetik-Corporation
Distribution: gnu
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 23:20:23 GMT

In article <10492@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> marsden@nu.cs.fsu.edu writes:
>I recently upgraded to Ghostview-1.3 and Ghostscript-2.5 on a SPARC running
>SunOS 4.1.2.  When I attempt to zoom any region under ghostview it appears
>that it is working on the zoom, but finally displays only a blank window.  I
>was wondering if anyone else has encountered this problem and if so, is
>there a simple patch to apply.
>

I have the same problem on my system, an i486 running Generics SVR4. With
gs241 the ghostview zoom worked fine!

I'm VERY interested in a patch to correct this!

Ciao,
	BB


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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: lichtin@olsen.CH (Martin Lichtin)
Subject: Not quite quiet
Organization: Olsen & Associates, Zurich, Switzerland
Distribution: gnu
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 12:05:52 GMT

I'm calling GhostScript 2.41 from within other programs, so
GhostScript should not issue any text if everything goes fine.
Unfortunately, using the following

   gs -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=dfaxhigh -sOUTPUTFILE='fax.%d' file.ps

still generates the 'GS>' prompt on stdout. Is there a way to avoid
this?  Shouldn't NOPAUSE do it? This is what history.doc says:

	"Adds a new NOPAUSE flag to suppress the prompt and pause at
	copypage and showpage."

I noticed that the 'GS>' text is defined in 'gs_init.ps', function
'prompt'. Thanks for any help.
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From: mike@skinner.cs.uoregon.edu (Michael John Haertel)
Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
Subject: circular dependency in the unix-gcc.mak (and probably others)
Date: 27 Aug 92 17:56:31 GMT
Distribution: gnu
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet

There is a circular dependency loop in unix-gcc.mak.
When you add ccfonts.dev to FEATURE_DEV, the dependency loop:

gconfig.h: ... ccfont.dev ...

ccfonts.dev: ... iccfont.o ...

iccfont.o: ... gconfig.h ...

is introduced.  A workaround is to create an empty iccfont.o before
compiling, and then remove it and compile a real one after gconfig.h has
been built.
Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: bz223@cleveland.FReenet.EDU (Danny Guy Frezza)
Subject: Interrupt problems with New Ghostscxript 2.5 using 386
Reply-To: bz223@cleveland.freenet.edu (Danny Guy Frezza)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Distribution: gnu
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 12:39:24 GMT

As far as I know, I am the second person who has received the error messages
of problems with the interrupt ... and the dumped register contents.
	However, I have tracked the problem, as far as I could, to the 
DOS4GW.EXE file version I received.  With Ghostscript 2.5, from Simtel
Archives, I received a byte total of 196818, dated 08-18-92 23:03, however
the DOS4GW.EXE I received with Ghostscript 2.4.1 was 196818 also, but dated
04-21-92 1:25 pm. Now, if I switch the older DOS4GW.EXE file with the newer
one, it seems to work.  However, I did not received any version notice of
2.5 at all to let me know for sure I am dealing with the new version,ie,
by running Ghostscript, to ascertain the version #.  
	Any help on this problem? Not sure if I am dealing with 2.5!
-- 

Dan Frezza
Internet: bz223@cleveland.Freenet.Edu


Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: snyder@acf3.nyu.edu (Kirk Snyder)
Subject: Re: Magnify GS2.5 output on VGA
Organization: New York University
Distribution: gnu
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 00:18:19 GMT

jeusfeld@picasso.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Manfred A. Jeusfeld) writes:

>can I magnify output of GS on a PCs VGA card? In other words: is there
>a tool like *ghostview* for MS-DOS? I really would appreciate it.

If anyone knows the answer to this could you please post it
rather than (or as well as) using email?  I think it's a common
question.  If it isn't possible to do this with any version or
companion program to ghostscript, is there a commercial MSDOS or
OS/2 postscript viewer comparable to the ghostview/ghostscript
combination?
 
Thanks in advance.
 
-- Kirk Snyder
   snyder@cs.nyu.edu


Newsgroups: chile.anuncios
From: rchappa@dcc.uchile.cl (Rodrigo Antonio Chappa Leiva)
Subject: Fischer contra Spassky
Originator: rchappa@caicai
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 12:56:19 GMT
Distribution: chile
Organization: Universidad de Chile, Depto. de Ciencias de la Computacion


 A los fanaticos del Ajedrez :
 
   En rec.games.chess se esta comentando las partidas entre
 Bobby Fischer y Boris Spassky.
 
   Simultaneamente con el juego se estan publicando las jugadas
 que ya se conocen, y al final se analizan.
 
   En ICS se puede ver la partida EN VIVO!!, y si se usa
X-Windows Internet Chess Server se puede ver el tablero, junto
a los comentarios de los fanaticos que estan conectados.
 
 Rodrigo.


Newsgroups: uch.general,chile.anuncios
From: erodrigu@dcc.uchile.cl (Eduardo Rodriguez)
Subject: articulos interesantes en...
Originator: erodrigu@tolten
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 13:21:35 GMT
Organization: Universidad de Chile, Depto. de Ciencias de la Computacion


Han aparecido una serie de articulos interesantes para quienes
son "nuevos" lectores de News, o para quienes se interesan en 
las historias, acuerdos, informaciones, etc respecto a las News
en general. Se puede encontrar desde la historia de USENET, hasta
los listados de mailing-list alternativas.
  Leer los ultimos articulos de news.announce.newusers

edo...
From: scott.marlow%travel@wugate.wustl.edu (Scott Marlow) 
Newsgroups: stl.jobs
Subject: TYPING FROM HOME
Date: 28 Aug 92 21:14:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Travel Online, St. Louis, MO
Reply-To: scott.marlow%travel@wugate.wustl.edu (Scott Marlow) 

My wife is interested in starting a typing/desktop publishing service
from home! If anyone is interested, please leave me E-mail.  Window's
software packages used and laser postcript output!

                                       Scott Marlow
From: bch@juliet.caltech.edu (MR. MAPLE)
Newsgroups: rec.running
Subject: Re: Soda Pop
Date: 4 Sep 92 17:42:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: juliet.4SEP199209423436
Distribution: na
Organization: California Institute of Technology
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Sep4.155109.24538@colorado.edu>, jac@noaacrd.colorado.edu (Julia Collins) writes...
>In article <1992Sep2.235706.18401@u.washington.edu> lamontg@carson.u.washington.edu (Lamont Granquist) writes:
>>>hweingra@oracle.UUCP (Howard Weingram) writes:
>>>>lamontg@milton.u.washington.edu (Lamont Granquist) writes:
>>>>>Of course the sweet taste will cause you to start producing insulin but
>>>>>w/o raising your glucose level...
>>>I don't believe that artificial sweeteners affect insulin production.
>>
>>They do because the *taste* triggers the release of insulin.  
> 
>Insulin release is triggered by increased blood glucose levels. The
>sweet taste of the drink has nothing to do with it.  
> 
>Julia
> 

Absolutely correct.  Taste has absolutely nothing to do with insulin production.
Insulin production is stimulated by blood glucose levels.

Is anyone out there a diabetic?  I have just started reading this group and
I don't know if the topic has come up before.

Bryan
From: reidyj@CS.ORST.EDU (Jay Reidy)
Newsgroups: rec.running
Subject: Re: Tendonitus question
Keywords: tendonitis
Date: 31 Aug 92 17:24:55 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Oregon State University

In article <fred.715274014@dip3> fred@dip3.ee.uct.ac.za (Fred Hoare) writes:
>Hi
>

> My doctor has told me that this is a type of injury that will
>just re-occur and
>has advised me to give up running all together.
>
>The questions I have are the following:
>
>1. Is it really necessary to give up running?
>2. What is the best treatment for this kind of injury?
>      (My doctor said it would heal by itself but I 
>       can still feel it seven weeks later)
>3. Does anyone know what would cause this injury:
>	incorrect shoes?
>	bad running style?
>	something else?
>

Doctors ALWAYS tell you s to stop running when you get an over use injury.
All that does is make you fat and sluggish.

My advice, if you aren't in too much pain, is to stretch before and after
your runs, warm up slowly and cut your mileage until you're healed.  When
you're done, ice the joint for 10 or 15 minutes.

Then, go see a podiatrist and see if orthotics might do the trick.  I had
all sorts of trouble years ago and got a pair ($250 US) but they were worth
their weight i gold!  My knees healed, my feet healed and I stopped runing
through expensive shoes in two months.

Good luck.

Regards,

Jay Reidy
reidyj@storm.cs.orst.edu