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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
Subject: Re: gs.exe 1.3 doesn't seem to work
Message-ID: <106900001@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 16 Jul 89 15:10:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Jul 16 10:10:00 1989


>In article <14940@ut-emx.UUCP> allred@ut-emx.UUCP (Kevin L. Allred) writes:
>|I downloaded the 1.3 distribution from gatekeeper.dec.com, and the
>|gs.exe file seems to be corrupted -- when I try to run it I get a DOS
>|message about error in the exe file.  All the other files seem to be
>|intact, but I haven't check closely.  I don't have turbo C so I can't
>|make a new copy myself.  Could some one please mail me a copy of
>|gs.exe that is known to work.  I really don't want to take time to
>|download the whole thing from scratch.

>gs.exe should be 192356 bytes, UTek's sum(1) gives "61235   188".

When I finally got a .exe file it was less than 192000 bytes. 

I don't have a Unix system that can do anon uucp or tar or compress.
I have to get files by ftp, transfer them to my PC by Kermit and
then uncompress and untar them there. This has usually worked, but
not in this case. There are just to many things to go wrong.

It would be best if someone with a working executable would upload
it to a system with ftp in its native un-compressed, un-tarred state.
MS-DOS binaries don't compress much anyway.

On the other hand, I would like to compile it myself, but I use
Microsoft C rather than Turbo. I got 1.2 to work somewhat with 1.2,
but I'm not going to do it with this. Perhaps the original author
could get it to work with MSC 5.1?

Doug McDonald