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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Ghostscript as OS/2-Printer ????
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.173631.15989@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <19930122.081937.754@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:36:31 GMT
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- In article <19930122.081937.754@almaden.ibm.com> pmuellr@vnet.ibm.com (Pat Mueller) writes:
- >>is there anobody, who has integrated Ghostscript as PS-Printer for OS/2.
- >>I think of something like: Conifgure PS-Printer with no LPTn, but ouput to
- >>a file; test every n seconds if there is something in the file, if yes,
- >>start Ghostscript.
- >You could probably do this with a monitor, like the way the OS/2
- >EWS program TXT2PS does and the tcp/ip program lprmon does. I haven't
- >played with monitors (which only have a 16 bit interface in 2.0)
- >so I don't know the difficulty level.
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- A well known personality (:-)) on the OS/2 newsgroups is working on
- such a program. Give him a little time.
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