[16344] in Athena Bugs
Re: netscape 4.05 PS viewer for O2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Mon Sep 21 15:36:36 1998
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:36:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
Cc: gnu@MIT.EDU, bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199809211715.NAA28919@andrew.mit.edu>
the gnu maintainer needs to set up a symlink in arch for 'sgi_63' which
points to the 'sgi_62' directory.
/mit/gnu/bin/ghostview is the correct default handler for postscript. Note
that some postscript files may have extensions we don't recognize as such
(for example .doc).
-Todd Belton
infoagents
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Abby Fox wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I think the following refers to the lack of ghostview for sgi_63 in
> the gnu locker (or are the prefs. supposed to point to something else
> on the O2 than /mit/gnu/bin/ghostview?):
>
> athena% ls -l /mit/gnu/arch/sgi_63/bin/gh*
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 7722 mit 12 Aug 12 14:11 /mit/gnu/arch/sgi_63/bin/ghead -> ../gbin/head*
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 7722 mit 16 Aug 12 14:11 /mit/gnu/arch/sgi_63/bin/ghostname -> ../gbin/hostname*
>
> athena% ls -l /mit/gnu/arch/sgi_62/bin/gh*
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 7722 mit 12 Aug 12 14:14 /mit/gnu/arch/sgi_62/bin/ghead -> ../gbin/head*
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 7722 mit 16 Aug 12 14:14 /mit/gnu/arch/sgi_62/bin/ghostname -> ../gbin/hostname*
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 7722 mit 17 Aug 12 14:14 /mit/gnu/arch/sgi_62/bin/ghostview -> ../gbin/ghostview*
>
>
>
> --Abby
>
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>
> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 12:28:44 -0400
> From: seth@MIT.EDU
> To: f_l@MIT.EDU
> Subject: bad default for netscape helper app
>
>
> when i try to view a postscript document
>
> http://graphics.lcs.mit.edu/classes/6.837/F97/lectures/L01_04sep97_Intr
> oduction,Bresenham.ps
>
> i get an error: ghostscript not found.
>
> i can fix this myself -- by changing the helper app
> to xpsview -- but it seems that either netscape
> should point to something that exists, or ghostscript
> should be installed, or both.
>
> best,
>
> seth
>
>
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>
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