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From: marc@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com (Marc Pawliger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: How to use Display PostScript to preview PS?
Keywords: DPS PostScript previewer
Message-ID: <1991Jan4.155238@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com>
Date: 4 Jan 91 23:52:38 GMT
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In article <9632@pitt.UUCP>, jonathan@cs.pitt.edu (Jonathan Eunice) writes:
|> How does one use DPS to preview PostScript files?  I can execute
|> PostScript code that I hand-type by using the program
|> /usr/lpp/DPS/bin/dpsexec, but I have yet to find a way of getting it to
|> read a pre-created PostScript file. 

dpsexec is just the interactive version of the PostScript interpreter.
You can use the PS command 'run' to read from a file like so:

  % /usr/lpp/DPS/bin/dpsexec
  PostScript(r) Version 1006.6
  Copyright (c) 1984, '85, '86, '87, '88, '89 Adobe Systems Incorporated.
  Typefaces Copyright (c) 1981 Linotype AG and/or its subsidiaries.
  All Rights Reserved.
  PS> (/path/to/the/file.ps)run

Check out the PS "red book" for more details.

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