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Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 21:48:11 +0200
From: taupin <taupin AT lps DOT u-psud DOT fr>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Linux lpr under DJGPP?
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Things are not so trivial as you said:

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 16:54:10 +0200
> > From: taupin <taupin AT lps DOT u-psud DOT fr>
> > >
> > >   gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=ljet4 -rNNNxMMM -sOutputFile=LPT2

> > Works but with 3 drawbacks:
> >  1. does not close the window at end (I mut type "quit")
> 
> Add -dBATCH to the switches.  (I refuse to be an efficient replacement
> for reading the docs ;-)

Done.
> 
> >  2. does not accept wild chars (to proceed several files) as does "lpr"

Can be solved with "ls [the arguments] > @somefile
and giving @somefile as an argument.

> >  3. does not accept gzipped files as does "lpr".
> 

The problem is that GS crashes if an argument is NOT postscript...
> This can be handled with `find' and `xargs'.

BTW: the doc is not clear about the difference between gswin32 and
gswin32c: in fact gswin32c does not give back control immediately, but
only when it terminated its task. Useful when gunzipping files as
temporary *.ps files which should be erased ONLY when gswin32 finished
its job.

All this to say that, after some work, the PS printing of a series of
gzipped PostScript files is possible.
But the main thing I say now: this is sufficiently difficult to be worth
a posted implementation.

Thanks anyway for your help, Eli.

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