On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 09:52:16AM -0500, Dave Lovelace wrote: > [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.
Or use '/dev/stdin'. Tim. */
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