Re: Can't preview postscript files under xdvi

2006-10-16 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Toby Allsopp wrote: > On 17 Oct 2006 at 05:47 NZDT, Ferran Mazzanti wrote: > > > The fact is that I've installed the latest release of cygwin, in an > > attempt to have a unixlike enviroment under my Windows box. I use > > LaTeX extensively and so I thought this could be a goo

Re: Can't preview postscript files under xdvi

2006-10-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Matthew Woehlke wrote: Angelo Graziosi wrote: If Cygwin aims to reproduce Linux on Windows who installs Cygwin should also installs a minimum of X. I don't recall installing X being a prerequisite of a functional, useful Linux system. I regularly use Linux boxes for which my need for X is mi

Re: Can't preview postscript files under xdvi

2006-10-16 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Angelo Graziosi wrote: If Cygwin aims to reproduce Linux on Windows who installs Cygwin should also installs a minimum of X. I don't recall installing X being a prerequisite of a functional, useful Linux system. I regularly use Linux boxes for which my need for X is minimal-to-nonexistent.

Re: Can't preview postscript files under xdvi

2006-10-16 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Larry Hall wrote: > As I recall, the reason for have a no-X version was so that people don't > have to install X to use ghostscript. I do not remember that on Linux there are X and no-X of ghostscript. If Cygwin aims to reproduce Linux on Windows who installs Cygwin should also installs a minim

Re: Can't preview postscript files under xdvi

2006-10-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Angelo Graziosi wrote: Ferran Mazzanti wrote: I can directly preview .dvi files displaying the postscript figures. I have solved in this way: cd /bin mv gs.exe gs.exe.orig ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/gs.exe gs.exe Cygwin, Why there are these two version, X and non-X of ghostscrip

Re: Can't preview postscript files under xdvi

2006-10-16 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Ferran Mazzanti wrote: > I can directly preview .dvi files displaying the postscript figures. I have solved in this way: cd /bin mv gs.exe gs.exe.orig ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/gs.exe gs.exe Cygwin, Why there are these two version, X and non-X of ghostscript? Once, someone said th

Re: Can't preview postscript files under xdvi

2006-10-16 Thread Toby Allsopp
On 17 Oct 2006 at 05:47 NZDT, Ferran Mazzanti wrote: > The fact is that I've installed the latest release of cygwin, in an > attempt to have a unixlike enviroment under my Windows box. I use > LaTeX extensively and so I thought this could be a good > solution. However, whenever I include postscrip