Many thanks to those who posted suggestions. I solved the problem by accident (nothing surprising there).
The solution is this:--- when I go to the command line, I use F11 to enlarge the display. That's what's the matter: if I *don't* enlarge, then evince filename.ps works. If I do, then no dice. If I click on the desktop icon of the .ps file, then evince works. Obviously, it's taken offence to F11. I'd like to report this to someone. Any suggestions? Regards, Bill Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
