[PLUG] PDF reader (cont'd)

[Ramkumar Natarajan]

you could use ggv (ghostview with a gnome interface).  It works most of the 
times but croaks on some files (and in reality, apart from acroread most of 
the others do a good job except on few files which seem to fsck them up).

as far as the weird pblm with acroread not being able to execute:
- The executable is usually named acroread
- Try using the 'file' command to find out what exactly is in the file that 
you are trying to execute
- Check that you have '.' in your PATH.  Even if you are in the directory 
that holds the executable, if there is no '.' in your PATH, then it wont 
search the current directory
- Force the issue by giving the complete pathname + executable name a la 
/usr/local/bin/acroread or something similar.  
If that fails, and you still think the permissions in the file are correct, 
contact the nearest clairvoyant to find out what bad karma of yours is 
coming back to haunt you :-)

-nrk.

Charles Allen wrote:

> Oh, yeah... the acrobat4 thing.. Whenever I switch to the directory it is
> installed to and attempt to run the program it states that there is no
> such file even though I'm staring right at it all of the permisions are
> correct and there is data in the file... but aparently it's not really
> there.  Trippy redhat...
> 
> -chuck
>