I'm sorry I have not responded to anyone. Phone was down with US West on 
strike!

All better now.

>It is true, that no other package is required to be INSTALLED. The package
>system pulls the jpeg libs and a few other graphics libs into the build
>tree, but without installing them. It also checks for the 'unzip' binary,
>and will build and attempt to install the 'unzip' package if not found.
>Do 'cd pkgsrc/print/ghostscript5 ; make -n build-depends,' and you will
>be simply amazed.

I'm amazed.

>Why would the machine crash during a make? The drive isn't full, is it?
>(Try 'df'.) When you're logged in as an ordinary user, 'make' will stop
>with a "drive full" error when it comes up against the maximum free space,
>but the root user bypasses that limit, and could possibly do some damage
>this way.

No it's not full.

>Be sure to re-run fsck until it doesn't find any more errors. If you've
>already marked the file-system clean, do that with 'fsck -f'.

OK


I'll try again with pkg_add.

Thanks everyone,




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Jeff