ps2ascii fails on http://www.xs4all.nl/~wrvh/treasure/tex/texbook.ps

Aleksey Nogin <[email protected]> Sun, 04 Aug 2002 12:19:33 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.printing.ghostscript.bugs
Organization	Cornell University
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

When trying to run ps2ascii on 
http://www.xs4all.nl/~wrvh/treasure/tex/texbook.ps, I get:

% ps2ascii texbook.ps
Error: /undefined in ch-xoff
Operand stack:
    --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval-- 
--nostringval--   0
Execution stack:
    %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval-- 
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval-- 
   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   2   3   %oparray_pop 
2   3   %oparray_pop   2   3   %oparray_pop   .runexec2 
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push 
   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
    --dict:1106/1123(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:92/200(L)-- 
--dict:94/300(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
Current file position is 4601
GNU Ghostscript 7.05: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

I get the same error with 6.52 (on Red Hat Linux 7.3):

% ps2ascii texbook.ps
Error: /undefined in ch-xoff
Operand stack:
    --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval-- 
--nostringval--   0
Execution stack:
    %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval-- 
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval-- 
   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   2   3   %oparray_pop 
2   3   %oparray_pop   2   3   %oparray_pop   .runexec2 
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push 
   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
    --dict:1092/1476(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:87/200(L)-- 
--dict:94/300(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
Current file position is 4601
GNU Ghostscript 6.52: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1