[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, in part:
> # create a new tmp-file
> touch pdf.tmp
> # read from STDIN and write into the tmp-file
> cat >> pdf.tmp
> # call the pdf2ps converter binary to convert the tmp-file and write the
> result to STDOUT
> /usr/local/bin/pdf2ps pdf.tmp -
> # delete the tmp-file
> rm pdf.tmp
> 
Hmm.  I really don't know as much as I should about these things, so I could
be wrong, but doesn't this allow for two jobs (perhaps for two different
printers) to be doing this at the same time?  You might want to generate
a unique name for your temp file & use that.

-- 
- Dave Lovelace
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