On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 20:23:11 -0000, Duncan Neithercut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Duncan,
Hi,
Been there & done that so so boring.
No no suprise your file is as corrupt as the others according to bzip2. Have
you used the recommended version of tar 0.05 and bzip2 1.0.1. Have you
actually checked the integrity of your archive recently. Did anyone actually
download a working copy of QDOS Ghostscript ever from the web. What prompted
Jonathon Hudson to use this unix combination of archivers for a QDOS
archive. Are we supposed to rewrite & recompile the whole Ghostscript file
from partially resurrected sources. Is that what Jonathon Hudson intended.
It actually would not suprise me if that was the case. Equally it would not
at all suprise me if the documentation with these various files was in
someway wrong, so average of the expert/commercial part of the QL scene.
If anyone cares to challenge this observation I can list specifics chapter,
verse, page and line of many manuals.
I have experienced problems with bzip archives myself (they fail to decompress even under Win32 bzip).
The reason for that was that the original place where the archives were hosted ie. Geocities had the habit of breaking the archives. The same problem happened with Wxqt2...
I don't think that it's Jonathan's fault that all these seemingly useless files are distributed. This is a requirement of the GPL license and it has to be done that way. Ghostscript in its pure form is damn difficult to use even on Windows, that's why all these interfaces exist and support programs.
Documentation of this and all other Linux/Unix ports is the original one and also covered by the GPL license (so it is there because it has to be there). Usually jonathan's files have a readme_qdos file inside that explains the differences from the Unix versions. If you run the Shell, even these usually do not apply as regular switches and expressions are possible with the Shell. Speaking of the Shell, anybody has its sources? (And the RK Utilities as well?)
Phoebus
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