[fptex] Ghostscript 6.5 doesn't seem to work with windvi

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Don Taylor wrote:

> I sent this to Richard Stanton on 8 Jan 01 but I really wanted to send
> it to the entire fptex list.  By the way Bob Howlett reports that the
> problem is still present with the new distribution.

I used the new distribution yesterday and get exactly the same thing on
NT4.  It does work with gs6.01 if I put that first in my PATH, and set
GS_LIB appropriately, which is my workaround.  Everything else I have that
uses gsdll (GSView 3.6, my own programs) works correctly under the settings
that fail with windvi, so I think gs6.50 is installed correctly and is
functioning.

Nothing changes if I have explicit settings in the PATH and GS_LIB or rely
on the registry.

I am stuck!

>
> Don Taylor
> --------------------
> I've encountered a similar problem but only on Windows 98.  After
> upgrading to Ghostscript 6.5 I copied the registry "Software/AFPL
> Ghostscript" key to
> "Software/Aladdin Ghostscript".  This fixed problems with font
> generation but for postscript inclusions I get the following error:
>
> Error: /typecheck in --closefile--
> Operand stack:
>    --nostringval--   ()
> Execution stack:
>    %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--
> --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3
> %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> Dictionary stack:
>    --dict:986/1476(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:66/200(L)--
> Current allocation mode is local
> Last OS error: No such file or directory
> AFPL Ghostscript 6.50: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> gsdll_init returned 1
>
> The same error occurs on Bob Howlett's Win98 machine but everything
> works fine on another machine running Win95.
>
> Does anyone know why this is happening?
>
> Don Taylor
>
>
> Richard Stanton wrote:
> >
> > I recently upgraded to Ghostscript 6.5, and now previewing of EPS inclusions
> > (using the latest windvi) doesn't seem to work any more. I just see empty
> > squares on the page.
> >
> > Richard Stanton
> >
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