Re: dvips(k) and popen

["Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr dot Volker dot Zell at oracle dot com>]

>>>>> "Jerome" == Jerome BENOIT <JGMBenoit@Wanadoo.fr> writes:

    Jerome> "Dr. Volker Zell" wrote:
    >> 
    >> >>>>> "Jerome" == Jerome BENOIT <JGMBenoit@Wanadoo.fr> writes:
    >> 
    Jerome> Hello !
    Jerome> I plan to make teTeX available under cygwin distribution (contrib)
    Jerome> in few days.
    Jerome> Before to upload I woud like to fix the popen misbehaviour
    Jerome> of dvips(k):
    Jerome> 1] if my ~/.dvipsrc has the line `o | gv'  [where gv can read pipes],
    Jerome> when I type `dvips sample2e.dvi' the dvips output is effectivelly
    Jerome> piped;
    Jerome> 2] but if my ~/.dvipsrc has the line `o';
    Jerome> when I type `dvips sample2e.dvi -o ! gv' I got strange behaviours.
    >> 
    Jerome> Has anyone get a patch that fix it ?
    >> 
    >> In my case, both cases work just fine, but I have to specify gv -
    >> instead of just gv.
    >> 
    >> My gv only reads from standard in if I specify gv -
    >> 
    >> I use
    >> 
    >> o gv-3.5.8 - http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gv/index.html
    >> 
    >> I also tried with
    >> 
    >> o ghostview-1.5 - ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/ghostview/

    Jerome> I suspect that you use Xfree stuff: if true, have you try on a Win9X
    Jerome> Window ?

Yes I use XFree. I have Win NT. Sorry no Win9x available.

Ciao
  Volker