Subject: How to pipe PostScript?

From: [email-masked] (Rick Troxel)
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 15:32:18 GMT

Is there an easy way to display a PostScript mail message from within
Pine?  More precisely, I receive a message in which the body is a
PostScript file.  I invoke View on it, then | (Pipe), and I enter

	tail +2 | ghostview

as the pipe command.  If I use less instead of ghostview, the PostScript
source looks okay -- the blank line separating the mail headers from the
body is stripped.  But ghostview only produces a blank page.

Suggestions would be most appreciated.

Regards,
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From: Michael Joswig <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 20:18:15 +0200 (MET DST)

Hi Rick,

ghostview expects the name of the file you want to process.

Try  "ghostview -" instead, that should work (It does on Unix, check your 
version which switch to use to read from stdin.

Ciao,
 Michael Joswig

> Suggestions would be most appreciated.

Michael J. Joswig              [email-masked]
                               Tel. (040) 651 56 25

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From: [email-masked] (Rick Troxel)
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 18:03:26 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Rick
Troxel) writes:

	   tail +2 | ghostview

Michael Joswig (my mail to him bounced, so I'll suppress what is
evidently an incorrect address for him) supplied the solution: Add an
argument of - (minus sign) to ghostview.  Thanks, Michael!
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Rick Troxel     [email-masked]     [email-masked]     301/496-4823
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     All effort and exertion put forth by man from the fullness of his
     heart is worship, if it  is prompted  by the  highest motives and
     the will to do service to humanity.                 --Abdu'l-Baha