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Wrong Ghostscript program name on MS Win

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Message #11 received at 36357 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 36357 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36357: Wrong Ghostscript program name on MS Win
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 13:29:57 +0200

No objections from my side.

Bye,
Tassilo


On July 6, 2019 10:13:59 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban <at> gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 18:04:41 +0200
>> 
>> Variable 'doc-view-ghostscript-program' has value - 'gs' - which is OK
>> for Unix and VMS, but NOT OK for MS Windows.  It should be 'gswin32c'.
>> For details look at the table in "How to Use Ghostscript", chapter
>> "2.1 Help at the command line: gs -h".
>> 
>> Perhaps it should be done as list of choice, like in case of
>> 'tex-dvi-view-command'?
>> 
>> Or as S. Monnier wrote: "(...) the default could simply
>> (executable-find "gs") and (executable-find "gswin32c") and use
>> whichever was found (...)".
>> 
>> Also the same table says 'gsos2' for OS/2 systems.
>
> Tassilo, any objections to such a change?  It sounds TRT to me, but I
> don't use these features, and don't have Ghostscript installed.
>
> Thanks.
>

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