ading Postscript files

Mike Bilow mikebw at bilow.bilow.uu.ids.net
Sat Jun 14 05:09:00 EDT 1997



John Chambers wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

 JC> True, but not relevant for something like ghostview. This is
 JC> a program which  looks like a single, "simple" command to a
 JC> user, and it must be able to read files from the viewpoint
 JC> of the user.  It's only function is to display postscript
 JC> files. If I called "ghostview foo.ps", and it cd'd to some
 JC> remote directory and then announced that it couldn't find
 JC> foo.ps, it would have failed to do the only thing it was
 JC> called to do. It must run in my current directory, for the
 JC> filenames I  give  it  to make any sense.

All I said was that it is straightforward to handle this in a shell script.
 
-- Mike




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