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[ILUG] cups question

[ILUG] cups question

Justin Mason jm at jmason.org
Tue Oct 8 17:12:03 IST 2002


Brendan Halpin said:

> "John P. Looney" <valen at tuatha.org> writes:
> 
> >  Anyone know what could cause postscript to barf ?
> 
> >  Error: /undefinedfilename in (/dev/fd/0)
> 
> This is the bit that is sticking in its craw: it can't read
> /dev/fd/0 as an input file. 
> 
> If you know what /dev/fd/0 is, you know more than I do, however.
> For me it's a link to /dev/null, which would explain why gs can't
> read ps out of it.

/dev/fd/0 is STDIN -- filedescriptor 0.  Looks like the PS file wants
to know its filename, but it's being read from STDIN, that's my
guess.  Try tweaking the scripts to run "gs" with the ps file on
the command line instead of as "-".

--j.



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