windows 98 dvips error

I get the attached bug report, please check. Thank you!

Minzhi Shi

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Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 14:09:42 +0100

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I just install lilypond through the setup.exe at windows 98. I try to run the example foo.ly that the website provided.

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Running LaTeX...
Running dvips...
error: dvips: command exited with value 256
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lilypond-1.4.9.uu1/bin/ly2dvi.py", line 857, in ?
    run_dvips (outbase, extra_init)
File "/usr/lilypond-1.4.9.uu1/bin/ly2dvi.py", line 647, in run_dvips
    system (cmd)
File "/usr/lilypond-1.4.9.uu1/bin/ly2dvi.py", line 230, in system
    error (msg)
File "/usr/lilypond-1.4.9.uu1/bin/ly2dvi.py", line 128, in error
    raise _ ("Exiting ... ")
Exiting ...
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did you run ly2dvi -P three times as indicated in the website?

If yes, then please check

http://lilypond.org/wiki/?TroubleshootingWindows

at the bottom, it explains how to file a full bugreport.

Han-Wen Nienhuys | address@hidden | http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/

From:	minzhi shi
Subject:	windows 98 dvips error
Date:	Sat, 01 Dec 2001 20:04:46 +0000