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- Excerpts from ext.WorldWideWeb: 29-Apr-93 Re: Standardizing new HTML ..
- Tony Sanders@bsdi.com (366)
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- > > Clearly Ghostview talks to Ghostscript in some fashion. Is the actual
- > > communication protocol between the two documented in some fashion other
- > > than the source code?
- > It opens a pipe and talks postscript to it I'm sure.
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- Ah, I had hoped that you might actually know. There is an additional
- protocol using X Client Events that runs between ghostscript and
- ghostview. Also, the environment variable protocol you described seems
- to be more complex; it's more like
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- setenv GHOSTVIEW "<window-id-1> <window-id-2>"
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- where <window-id-1> is the window on which ghostscript is supposed to
- render, and <window-id-2> is the window to which ghostscript sends
- events, in order to run this out-of-band additional protocol. I believe
- that
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- setenv GHOSTVIEW "<window-id>"
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- will also work in some fashion, though I don't know to what extent the
- protocol will be crippled.
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- Bill
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