Sending PS.MAP Output DIRECTLY to a Print Queue???

[Harm Olthof]

On Mon, 27 Nov 1995 09:20:58 +0100 you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>It is not possible to send ps.map output directly to a printer.
>The reason for this is that the ps.map program first makes up the 
>image and in the meanwhile calculates the drawing bounding box, which 
>afterwards is inserted into the postscipt header. This requires random 
>access to the postscript file.
>
>Ronald Wiemer
>R.O.B. / Archis
>
>

You can always make your own script. Something like this.
give the usual ps.map parameters **without** an output filename.

my.ps.map
=============
#! /bin/csh -f

<usual code to check if grass is running>

onintr einde
ps.map $0 output=psfile.$$
lpr -P<name of postscriptprinter> psfile.$$
  **or**
gs -sDEVICE=<someprinterformat> -sOutputFile=|lpr  psfile.$$
: einde
rm -f psfile.$$

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It's been a while since I used cshell scripts and gs, so this probably doesn't 
work, but you'll get the idea. (Sorry no, unix machine at hand right now)

Harm


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