[GRASS-dev] Re: winGRASS

[Michael Barton]

I just committed new windows-compatible versions of mapprint.tcl and
maptool.tcl.

Both work on my Mac (meaning I don't think I broke the x11 version). Please
test for Windows.

Michael


On 12/18/06 11:50 AM, "Glynn Clements" <glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:

> 
> Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>>> 9.3 MS Windows
>>> 
>>> The name of the Ghostscript command line executable on MS Windows is
>>> gswin32c so use this instead of the plain 'gs' in the quickstart
>>> examples.
>>> 
>>> You must add gs\bin and gs\lib to the PATH, where gs is the top-level
>>> Ghostscript directory.
>>> 
>>> When passing options to ghostcript through a batch file wrapper such
>>> as ps2pdf.bat you need to substitute '#' for '=' as the separator
>>> between options and their arguments. For example:
>>> 
>>>    ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE#a4 file.ps file.pdf
>> 
>> Will this work for all versions (*nix as well as Win)? If so, I can just
>> change it universally and not worry about whether it is on a windows systems
>> or not.
> 
> It seems to; e.g. "gs -sDEVICE#nullpage" works for me on Linux.

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