hmmm,
I'm using SOLARIS and my pdf2ps version does not read from <STDIN> :-(
take care
~christoph
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Tim Waugh wrote:
> 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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