Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!adobe!heaven!glenn From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: USPC file output? Message-ID: <252@heaven.woodside.ca.us> Date: 23 Aug 90 17:39:51 GMT References: <1990Aug22.172319.9707@aurora.com> Reply-To: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) Distribution: comp Organization: RightBrain Software, Woodside, CA Lines: 36 In article <1990Aug22.172319.9707@aurora.com> geof@aurora.UUCP (Geoffrey H. Cooper) writes: |In article pollack@cis.ohio-state.edu writes: ||I could not get the distillery to run under NeWS, and so tried to run ||it under Ultrascript PC. It seemed to work(!) but the output scrolled by ||on the screen and did not land in the USLOAD.LOG file, as advertised ||by the manual. | |There is no automatic mechanism for logging the output of USPC's |screen. However, there are several alternatives available to you: | | [1] I think that the distillery is designed to operate on an | input and output file. Since USPC can only open a very | limited number of files at once for PS use, you may have | to run this by creating a file that you "print" (not from | executive, which uses an extra file descriptor of its own). | | So maybe "still.ps" can actually do the output to where you | want it. Yes, the Distillery can be made to write directly to a file, although I've never tried it with USPC. I think that all you have to do is to change the way you invoke the Distillery. If you are currently putting the word "distill" followed by the whole file to be distilled, try the following instead: (filename.ps) distill If (filename.ps) can be opened by the interpreter, it should write out a file named "filename.psx" with the distilled output. (Glenn) cvn -- Glenn Reid PostScript/NeXT consultant glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us Independent Software Developer ..{adobe,next}!heaven!glenn 415-851-1785