Article 170317 of comp.os.vms:
Phillip Helbig wrote:
> Has anyone installed ghostview and/or ghostscrip successfully from the
> freeware cd (version 3.0)?  Is there a more up-to-date source for the
> distribution?  With ghostscript get compiler warnings which call the MMS
> procedure to abort, and with ghostscript the installation instructions
> in the readme don't correspond to the files and it doesn't look like a
> no-hacking installation is possible.  I'm sure there must be ready-to-
> run versions somewhere?

Hi Phillip,

Information on the latest version of Ghostview (gv 3.4.3) is at

  http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~plass/gv/

You'll have to compile it (and Xaw3d) yourself, but (for VMS at least)
everything you need (assuming you have a C compiler!) is there and works
well for me.

Information on the latest version of Ghostscript (gs 4.03) is at

  http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html

Incidentally, that site mentions an ancient version of Ghostview. The
latest version is much much improved.

I compiled gs 4.01 with only a few fixes for VMS required. I can't
remember whether these fixes were included in 4.03 (I did report them at
the time), which I haven't bothered to upgrade to (it's not much changed
I think). Anyway, if you see any of the following problems still in
gs 4.03, I can send you the fixes.

1)  Anything (eg. PDF->PS conversion) that attempts to create a new file
    with "(w) file" fails, unless a version of the file already exists.
2)  vms.mak selects old versions of LIBPNG and ZLIB.
3)  There are a few compilation warnings that can probably be ignored.

There may be precompiled versions out there somewhere, but maybe not the
latest versions (and Ghostview in particular has been improving rapidly
:-) ). Unless it's difficult for you, it's probably best to compile them
yourself.

Happy haunting!
Tim.

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