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Subject: Re: Can't preview postscript files under xdvi
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Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> Ferran Mazzanti wrote:
> 
>> I can directly preview .dvi files displaying the postscript figures.
> 
> I have solved in this way:
> 
>     cd /bin
>     mv gs.exe gs.exe.orig
>     ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/gs.exe gs.exe
> 
> 
> 
> Cygwin, 
> 
> Why there are these two version, X and non-X of ghostscript?
> 
> Once, someone said that only the X is sufficient.
> 
> If this is the case, we could install only the X version and change
> 'ghostscript' with 'ghostscript-x11' in the field 'requires' of
> setup.ini to adapt the dependences... or NOT ?

As I recall, the reason for have a no-X version was so that people don't
have to install X to use ghostscript.

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