Re: Not quite quiet

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From: Bill Holland
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 03:45

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In article <BtJG9u.DME@olsen.ch> lichtin@olsen.CH (Martin Lichtin) writes:

> I'm calling GhostScript 2.41 from within other programs, so
> GhostScript should not issue any text if everything goes fine.
> Unfortunately, using the following
>
>    gs -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=dfaxhigh -sOUTPUTFILE='fax.%d' file.ps
>
> still generates the 'GS>' prompt on stdout. Is there a way to avoid
> this?

Add PostScript file name 'quit.ps' as the last file to print:

gs -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=dfaxhigh -sOUTPUTFILE='fax.%d' file.ps quit.ps

The default behavior of ghostscript seems to be to prompt for more files
to print.  File 'quit.ps' is found in the 'ghostscript' directory, and
contains the single line:

quit

Reading this file makes GhostScript quietly terminate.

-Bill Holland <holland@hplwdh.hpl.hp.com>

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