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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