GS crashes in VMS with color ps file and >8bit color display.

[Mark London]

Someone sent me a postscript file which displayed fine on vms with a display
limited to 8bit color.  When I tried it with a display with either 16bit or 24
bit color, ghostscript crashes in the routine x_copy_image in the routine 
XPutImage   I tried to step into that routine and look at the macros (no
source for that, of course), and it looks like it's expecting to find a
put_pixel routine in the Ximage structure.

I tried this file on linux and it displayed fine, which confirms it's a VMS
problem.

Is this a known bug, and is there any way around it?  If there is no patch for
the code, is there a way to force ghostscript to use only 8bit so as to avoid
the problem?

I'll be glad to send this file to anyone who wants to try it.  Does someone
support the VMS version?  Thanks.

Mark London
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