GhostScript port/pkg broken on 5.3R

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Jeff Kreska" <jeff at kreska.org> writes:

> I can't seem to get ghostscript port/pkg to work. I can't find anyone else
> with this problem so I am not sure if it is onlt my environement.
> 
> I tryed pkg ghostscript-gnu-7.07
> port ghostscrupt-gnu ( cvsupped tried again )
> 
> My uname reports: 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE i386
> 
> Problem is with ps2ascii, everytime I run ps2ascii <file> this is the
> output I get:
> Operand stack:
>    --nostringval--
> 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   2   3   %oparray_pop  
> .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2  
> %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> Dictionary stack:
>    --dict:1115/1123(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:77/200(L)--
> Current allocation mode is local
> Current file position is 7
> GNU Ghostscript 7.07: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> 
> 
> Any pointers or suggestions would be greatly be appreciated.

It looks like the program doesn't think the input is actually a
PostScript file.  Try another file: e.g., 
 ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/5-roadmap/article.ps.bz2
works for me.