Re: Ghostscript as OS/2-Printer ????

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From: Pat Mueller
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:13

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>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.

Patrick Mueller                  addr:  pmuellr@vnet.ibm.com
IBM Cary, North Carolina         phone: 919-469-7242

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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 11:13:52 EST
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