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From: gil@daffy.gatech.edu (Gil Neiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: dvips and stdin
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Date: 16 Oct 89 17:14:26 GMT
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The documentation for dvips states that if no dvi is specified,
stdin is read instead.  It also states that if the flag -f is given,
dvips works as a filter, again reading stdin.  Operationally, this
seems to be incorrect; dvips gives an error: no input filename
supplied.  In addition, the -f option does not copy to stdout.  I
have checked the source, and there never seems to be any effort
made to read stdin.  Does anyone have fixes for this?

			- Gil Neiger gil@gatech.edu