I've reported this on gnu.ghostscript.bug newsgroup: ------- 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 -------
Still there in ghostscript-7.07-33
This bug has been fixed in ghostscript-8.15-0.rc3.3 which is available in Fedora Core development.
Confirmed fixed in "ghostscript-8.15.2-1.1" on Fedora Core release 5 : [peterve@peanut ~]$ ps2ascii -version ESP Ghostscript 8.15.2 (2006-04-19) Copyright (C) 2004 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved. [peterve@peanut ~]$ ps2ascii texbook.ps test.txt [peterve@peanut ~]$ echo $? 0 [peterve@peanut ~]$ rpm -q ghostscript ghostscript-8.15.2-1.1