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

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well... whatever happend, it *LOOKS* like an eroneous cut-and-paste job.  If
not human error, then perhaps a software bug.  But either way, you don't
need to reinstall.


On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 12:04:42PM -0500, 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.
> > 
> > 
> > -jeff
> > -- 
> > Elian Gonzalez, a 6-yr-old Cuban boy, is the subject of a bitter internat'l
> > custody battle. What do you think?  "Elian should be allowed to stay. It 
> > would
> > be good for Miami to get a little splash of Cuban culture." Donna Keegan,
> > School Psychologist. http://www.theonion.com/onion3546/wdyt_3546.html
> > 
> > 
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> Michael A. Holmes
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