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Date:	Fri, 09 Mar 2001 00:57:43 +0100
From:	Jerome BENOIT <JGMBenoit AT Wanadoo DOT fr>
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To:	"Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr DOT Volker DOT Zell AT oracle DOT com>
CC:	"apps, Cygwin" <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: dvips(k) and popen
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"Dr. Volker Zell" wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Jerome" == Jerome BENOIT <JGMBenoit AT Wanadoo DOT fr> writes:
> 
>     Jerome> Hello !
>     Jerome> I plan to make teTeX available under cygwin distribution (contrib)
>     Jerome> in few days.
>     Jerome> Before to upload I woud like to fix the popen misbehaviour
>     Jerome> of dvips(k):
>     Jerome> 1] if my ~/.dvipsrc has the line `o | gv'  [where gv can read pipes],
>     Jerome>    when I type `dvips sample2e.dvi' the dvips output is effectivelly
>     Jerome> piped;
>     Jerome> 2] but if my ~/.dvipsrc has the line `o';
>     Jerome>    when I type `dvips sample2e.dvi -o ! gv' I got strange behaviours.
> 
>     Jerome> Has anyone get a patch that fix it ?
> 
> In my case, both cases work just fine, but I have to specify gv -
> instead of just gv.
> 
> My gv only reads from standard in if I specify gv -
> 
> I use
> 
> o gv-3.5.8 - http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gv/index.html
> 
> I also tried with
> 
> o ghostview-1.5 - ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/ghostview/

I suspect that you use Xfree stuff: if true, have you try on a Win9X
Window ?



> 
> It works the same as gv.
> 
>     Jerome> Thanks in advance,
>     Jerome> Jerome BENOIT
> 
> Ciao
>   Volker

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