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sindi keesan wrote:
>
> It was easier to copy from BL2 than find the SW4.0 CD

But BL2 is glibc2.  SW4.0 is libc5.

> The latest xpdf contains all statically compiled binaries, 

Not the one I am using.

xpdf version 3.01            7607066 bytes
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libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x4001a000)
libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x40028000)
libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4003a000)
libXp.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXp.so.6 (0x40083000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x4008a000)
libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x40097000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x400a4000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x400ae000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x400c3000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4017c000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4019f000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x402d2000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
-------------------------------------------------------

> so why is xpdf having problems in BL3?  

Probably because it is dependent on glibc2 (libc.so.6).

> Please check if xpdf works for you in BL3.40.  

Yes, the xpdf from Slackware 4.0 works in BL3.

> > Is xli (already in BL3) not good enough?
> 
> xv does more 

What can it do that xli can't?  I saw some reference to
xv doing postscript (which xli doesn't); however when I
tried using xv on a postscript file, it did nothing.

> netpbm probably does most of the same things.

Neither netpbm nor xv come with BL3.  xli is part of BL3.
There's no point installing xv or netpbm unless they are
superior in some way.

Cheers,
Steven