From: jim@n5ial.mythical.com (Jim Graham) Subject: problem getting gs running: libX11.so.3 ??? Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 04:14:55 GMT
like the subject line sayd, I'm having problems getting gs running. I just
downloaded it (nice 25 minute download on a long distance call) in the form
of the 2 SLS distribution disks (slsv1ab5.zip and slsv1ab6.zip) from one of
the Linux BBS systems.
anyways, the problem is, it seems to insist on having libX11.so.3 around,
even though I'm *NOT* running it under X (I'm a long way from having the
ability to support X11 here....in terms of both hard disk and memory), and
have clearly specified the '-dNODISPLAY' option on the command line, as per
the documentation. in fact, the entire command line I used was:
# gs -sDEVICE=epson -r360x180 -dNODISPLAY tiger.ps
the -r360x180 is what the documentation identifies as the resolution for
a 24-pin dot-matrix printer...I'm assuming that this is identical to the
360x360 resolution provided by emTeX's DVI driver...if not, I'll be
changing this line to 360x360 when I get this working.
any suggestions? I know for a fact that ghostscript doesn't require X11
to write to the printer, because I've run it under dog before, and I've
never had X11 for dog. so I'm obviously doing something wrong. anyone
have any suggestions (for someone w/o ftp capability and no more budget for
LD calls this month) as to how I can get this working like it's supposed
to? I know it's a simple command line switch, but can't find it in the man
page (searching on 'X11' and 'lib').
thanks.....
--jim
PS: not that I really ever expected this to work (it was one of those
``what the hell...it can't hurt'' deals), but 'touch /lib/libX11.so.3'
doesn't do work....no surprise, but.....