Re: How to Quit ?

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From: L. Peter Deutsch
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 13:52

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Re <9204110609.AA10340@raisin-nut>
<1992Apr11.012442.9193@acsu.buffalo.edu>:

> After Printing a Postscript file using Ghostscript, it leaves:
> GS>
> and I have to type quit and then print the second file. 
> 
> Suppose I have to print 10 files. I want to send a batch file and then
> go out to buy a coffee and then pick up the ten files, how can I do it?

Ghostscript accepts multiple files on the command line.  The simplest
way of handling this is to say

	gs file1.ps quit.ps

quit.ps is a small file in the Ghostscript fileset that just contains
the word

	quit

When Ghostscript reads this it will quit.

L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306
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Subject: Re: How to Quit ?
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