[aclug-L] Re: What!!!!!!

[Jeff <schaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Then I'm assuming that either in downloading (!) or reading the
email, the email client fired off 'gs' in order to display or
convert a pdf file.  Did you receive any pdf files in any of those
emails? What program do you use to download and/or read email?

-jeff
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On Thu, 25 May 2000, Michael Holmes wrote:

> this was on the screen after I down loaded mail.  I was doing nothing else! 
> The cut and paste, was me trying to get it off the screen to vim, so I could
> email it, I did not know how to directly email the screen, so I cut the error
> messages from the screen and opened a file in vim and pasted it there and then
> emailed it.
> 
> All I did was dial up, download mail and then drop out of xwindows, and there
> was the screen full of this
> 
> On Thu, 25 May 2000, you wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 May 2000, Michael Holmes wrote:
> > 
> > > Enclosed is a text file left on the screen after I had email
> > > trouble, can anybody figure out what was up, do Ineed to
> > > reinstall?
> > 
> > No, you don't need to reinstall.
> > Looks like some errors got cut & pasted into the commandline
> > accidentally, and then something attempted to convert a pdf file
> > into a postscript one. Unfortunately, the process didn't protect
> > the filename, which contains a space, from the shell, and so 'gs'
> > ends up getting confused.  Try renaming the file to be converted.


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