From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2566 invoked by alias); 27 Jul 2010 05:34:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 2552 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Jul 2010 05:34:20 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD,FREEMAIL_FROM,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from lo.gmane.org (HELO lo.gmane.org) (80.91.229.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:34:14 +0000 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Odcnq-0005IM-Sd for cygwin@cygwin.com; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:34:10 +0200 Received: from pool-71-249-45-28.nycmny.btas.verizon.net ([71.249.45.28]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:34:10 +0200 Received: from rpaskudniak by pool-71-249-45-28.nycmny.btas.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:34:10 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Rasputin Paskudniak Subject: Re: a2ps on Cygwin quietly exits with code 127 on Windows 7 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:38:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <4C4E584E.7000500@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Thunderbird/3.1.1 In-Reply-To: <4C4E584E.7000500@gmail.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-07/txt/msg00563.txt.bz2 On 7/26/2010 11:53 PM, Dave Korn wrote: > On 23/07/2010 21:23, Beau Nanaz wrote: >> Greetings. >> >> I have a new Windows-7 machine and one of the first things I downloaded >> was Cygwin, making sure to include a2ps and ps2pdf. >> >> Unlike the flawless running (after diddling $HOME/.a2ps/a2psrc) I had >> under my previous XP box, This one is misbehaving: It does nothing >> visible, even for a2ps --version. > > Try installing libintl2. a2ps.exe depends on that very old version but > doesn't mention it explicitly in its setup.hint dependencies. (Probably it > used to get pulled in by default anyway by some other package but now the last > other thing that used to use v2 of libintl has been updated to a more recent > one so there's nothing left to cause it to be installed any more.) > > cheers, > DaveK > > > YEOWW! That did it. My problem has been solved - I just ran it ant then ran that through ps2pdf. Beautiful!! Thank you! Now where is there an FAQ on a2ps so we can add that to the list. I can't be the only one banging my head against the wall on this issue. (And whatever nomm de guerre I am using, my first name is *not* Harvey. ;-) -- +- Rasputin Paskudniak -----------------------------------+ |- In perpetual pursuit of undomesticated aquatic avians -| +---------------------------------------------------------+ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple