page(1): mention ghostscript, /dev/fd

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Russ Cox 2011-10-31 09:31:13 -04:00
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@ -270,3 +270,31 @@ document references cannot be sent
via plumbing messages. via plumbing messages.
.PP .PP
There are too many keyboard commands and menu items. There are too many keyboard commands and menu items.
.PP
Displaying a PostScript or PDF file depends both on having
GhostScript
(see
.IR gs (1))
installed and on the underlying operating system
providing a file descriptor device tree at
.BR /dev/fd .
.PP
Some FreeBSD installations
do not provide file descriptors greater than 2
in
.BR /dev/fd .
To fix this, add
.IP
.EX
/fdescfs /dev/fd fdescfs rw 0 0
.EE
.LP
to
.BR /etc/fstab ,
and then
.B mount
.BR /dev/fd .
(Adding the line to
.B fstab
ensures causes FreeBSD to mount the file system
automatically at boot time.)