[ale] novice question

[William Mahavier]

>From eric at uxeric.compgen.com Tue Mar 19 13:40 EST 1996
>To: William Mahavier <wsm at mathcs.emory.edu>


>It seems that you are using the Slackware distribution.
Right.

>Your problem is that you don't have the version of ghostscript with the
>X11 driver compiled in.  There are two different versions of ghostscript
>on the Slackware installation.  Try installing the package gs_x11.  I
>think you'll find it in the xap disk series.

I got gs_x11 and ghostview from the xap1 disc.

>You can either use the pkgtool program that comes w/ slackware or uio
>can just cd to / and untar it.
And I did this (having first saved my old gs)

An ls -l shows both files are there with permissions 755.
owner: root, group: bin

When I try to execute either one I get:
no such file or directory
They are in my path.
Anyone got any ideas?

>William Mahavier writes:
> > I want to be able to view in X nroff files. Using apropos I found
> > gs and the man page sounded like it should do the job but when I try
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