On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Mike Hicks wrote: > I wouldn't really recommend using named pipes, as many programs these > days will only read from `regular' files. However, you can just create > a regular file to dump a dvi file into, then run xdvi on it. A simple > example of this would be something like (the `$$' is a variable > representing the process ID of the script): > > #!/bin/sh > gunzip -c $1 > /tmp/tmp.$$ > xdvi /tmp/tmp.$$ > rm -f /tmp/tmp.$$ > > HTH I had come to the conclusion that a little scriptware was in order. Thanks for confiming it and doing it in about 40% of the keystrokes I woulda prob'ly used! Cheers, Phil M -- Lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org