From:	Anders Blom <blom AT teorfys DOT lu DOT se>
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Subject:	Re: Problems with latex2html
Date:	Thu, 17 Jun 1999 12:58:53 +0200
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Well, it is actually a DJGPP ported program, Ghostscript 3.30.
But I suspect the problem lies in Ghostscript as such and not the port,
so I'll direct my query elsewhere.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Anders Blom wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to use latex2html on my PC under Win98.
> > I have gs 3.33 and pstoppm3.ps
> > Using the most basic texfile (a couple of lines and a \fbox), I latex
> > and dvips it properly (generating "test.ps")
> > Then, I run
> >
> > gs -dNODISPLAY pstoppm3.ps
> >
> > and type
> >
> > (test) ppm1run
> >
> > and get the following error message:
> > error: \undefined in writeppmfile
> > and a stack dump.
> 
> Is any of the programs you mentioned a DJGPP port?  I don't think so.
> If I'm right, then I don't think anybody here will be able to help you.
> This forum is for discussing DJGPP and related software.
> 
> FWIW, the way to produce HTML from TeX with DJGPP ports is to use the
> TeX4Ht program, which was ported as part of the Web2c package.  I don't
> know how well it handles LaTeX, but I did test TeX4Ht with simnple TeX
> files and got good results.
> 
> You can find the binaries in the v2apps/tex directory on the usual DJGPP
> sites; TeX4Ht is in the file t4ht-a8b.zip there.  Be sure to read the file
> TeX.README before you begin downloading, otherwise you might miss some
> required auxiliary package without which the program won't work.

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