>>>>> "Lyle" == Lyle Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Lyle> Can anyone help?  I have a print script in bash that monitors a
Lyle> certain folder, when that folder is populated with a postscript
Lyle> file it is converted to a pdf and then printed to a selected
Lyle> printer.

Why not get whatever is generating the postscript to pipe directly to
lpr instead?  Only the generating program can be sure that it's
finished -- even ls -l and waiting for the size to stop increasing
isn't guaranteed to work.

Peter C
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