Yes, it does help. Thank you very much, Igor, for taking the time and the effort to solve the problem that quickly and for providing the solution complete and concrete.
Nevine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Nev Bis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 3:35 PM Subject: Re: ghostscript on Windows and cygwin path style > Nevine, > > Ah, that explains it. The script I suggested earlier will look at the > whole parameter. If you want to transform parts of parameters, you'd have > to do something a bit more sophisticated, like > > #!/bin/sh > PARAMS="" > for i in "$@"; do > case "$i" in > -*=/*) i="`echo "$i" | \ > sed 'h;s,^[^=]*=\(/.*\)$,cygpath -w -- "\1",e;x;\ > s,=.*$,=,;G;s,\n,,'`" ;; > -*) ;; > */*) i="`cygpath -w -- "$i"`" ;; > *) ;; > esac > PARAMS="$PARAMS '$i'" > done > eval "set -- $PARAMS" > gswin32c "$@" > > The above seems to work correctly. Hope this helps, > Igor > > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Nev Bis wrote: > > > Yes, It does. I got the echo > > > > Before I sent the last reply, I tried invoking gs from > > cygwin's command prompt with the switch > > -sOutputFile=/tmp/somefile.pcx > > > > and got the same error. > > > > Thanks, > > Nevine > > > > --- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Nev, > > > > > > Please make sure your mailer respects Reply-To:. > > > > > > Does your gs script get invoked by xfig? Try putting an "echo > > > 'gs...'" in the beginning of your script and see if it shows up in the > > > output. > > > Igor > > > > > > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Nev Bis wrote: > > > > > > > Thank you very much for your help and prompt response. > > > > > > > > Now gs responds correctly to this command from > > > > cygwin's command prompt: > > > > > > > > gs /c/somefile.ps > > > > > > > > But the problem is that xfig specifies the output file > > > > to be /tmp/somefile.pix. > > > > gs tries to look for a \tmp directory and does not > > > > realize that this is /c/cygwin/tmp, so I get the > > > > following error > > > > > > > > AFPL Ghostscript 8.11: **** Could not open the file \tmp\somefile.pcx > > > > Error: /invalidfileaccess in --.outputpage-- > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Nevine > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > To: "Nev Bis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 12:58 PM > > > > Subject: Re: ghostscript on Windows and cygwin path style > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Nev Bis wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I have cygwin version 1.32 running on Windows XP Pro. > > > > > ^^^^ > > > > > FYI, there is no such version. Your cygcheck.out shows version 1.3.22. > > > > > The latest is 1.5.5. I'd recommend upgrading. > > > > > > > > > > > I have ghostscript 8.11 installed in > > > > > > C:\gs\gs8.11\bin. Under this same directory, I have a > > > > > > file called "gs", containing this line: > > > > > > > > > > > > gswin32c $* > > > > > > > > > > > > I also have XFree86 installed and xfig 3.2.4 > > > > > > > > > > > > Xfig has a problem invoking gs to convert a eps file into pcx. The > > > > > > problem appears to be that gs does not recognize the path style. In > > > > > > fact when I invoke gs from the bash shell with a file under the > > > > > > working directory, it works fine. But when I call it this way > > > > > > > > > > > > gs /c/directory/somefile.ps > > > > > > > > > > > > I get this error from ghostscript > > > > > > > > > > > > /undefinedfilename in ( /c/directory/somefile.ps) > > > > > > > > > > > > What should I do? > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Nevine > > > > > > > > > > Try changing your "gs" file to > > > > > > > > > > #!/bin/sh > > > > > PARAMS="" > > > > > for i in "$@"; do > > > > > PARAMS="$PARAMS '`cygpath -w -- "$i"`'" > > > > > done > > > > > eval "set -- $PARAMS" > > > > > gswin32c "$@" > > > > > > > > > > and see if it helps. > > > > > Igor > > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route > to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
