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In article <Apr.12.00.55.37.1988.2602@porthos.rutgers.edu>, mende@porthos.rutgers.edu (Bob Mende pie) writes:
> In article <8804112027.AA19801@decwrl.dec.com> chavez@cookie.dec.com
> (Dale - 522-2336/3905) writes:
>>
>> What kind of code precedes the Postscript calendar?  It looks somewhat like
>> C, but when I try and compile using VMS, I get tons of compiler errors.
>>
>> Dale
> 
>   The code that precedes the PostScript calendar is unix cshell
> commands.  It is a hack to do the following.
> 
> o	allow a command line interface to postscript.
> o	allow the month and year to be taken from a command line and
> 	set in postscript.
> o	print the file...
> 
>    Now I am sure that there is a way to do a similar hack in vms ...
> but I dont know if there is a equivalent of the <<EOF
> construct of sh/csh.   If you want to make the calendar remove
> everything before the %! and modify the following...
> 
> /month $month def		/month month-you-want-1-12 def
> /year $year def			/year year-you-want-in-19xx-form def
> 
> and then print it by hand ... what the csh code does is take your
> command line args and replace $month and $year appropritly.
> 
> 
> 						/Bob
> 
> ps... you also could print it on a UNIX(tm) machine.
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