Re: Subject: Re: pdf2xy routine

[Patricia M Godfrey pmgodfrey@xxxxxxxx]

ON 1/9/05, Robert wrote:
≪Take a look at frame {{5ab,ab/nv,st,st/nv}} -- does your copy use
Save/Get 51 and maybe also 52, or does it use Save/Get 01? If 51+52,
that's your problem.≫

No, 5ab,ab/nv,st,st/nv uses SG 01 (copy subtended just to be sure,
because it also uses SG 50, though not 51).

Path: here's the result of piping the path command to a text file:
PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\PROGRA~1\WIN98RK;C:\GS\GS8.15\BIN

≪ look in Editor's directory for any file VIEWPDF*, especially
VIEWPDF.TMP. Does VIEWPDF.*TMP*
exist? What's in it?≫

NO viewpdf.*, but I do find the following, created this time and date:

lfn.tmp, 2K, consisting of a listing of the root directory of drive D:,
which is where my XyWrite directory is.

$ver$.tmp, 1 K,, consisting of the following three lines:

Windows 98 [Version 4.10.2222]


≪There's a line in the frame that says:
BX dos/nv/x/z /c  -output \VIEWPDF.TMP ""Q2
≫
Right, did all that, and the resulting "actual command being issued to
DOS and GS " reads like this:

dos/nv/x/z /c -output D:\XYW4DOS\VIEWPDF.TMP "c:\GS\gs8.15"

I very much doubt that's too long (I've typed longer commands at a DOS
prompt and used longer ones in batch files), but it yields

Bad command or file name

(I'm assuming the "dos/nv/x/z" is Xywrite, so just used the part
beginning "/c")

I also tried running it from the Run command on the start menu, and got a
message that Redmond Rubbish couldn't find the file output or one of its
components.

So possibly "output" is something (like net use to a port on the current
PC) that just doesn't work in 9x? No, I don't LIKE 9x, but I'm unwilling
to "upgrade" to more RR when what I really want to do is switch to Linux.


HOWEVER, substituting kmd got the same results: "-output is not a
recognized command."

A further wrinkle: Besides delivering the DOS command, the new version
(with EX) leaves open a window in Xywrite displaying the file LFN.tmp
(Which NOW is a directory of C:\gs\gs8.15\bin), with the file listing for
PSTOTXT3.exe selected.

Hmm, just had a thought. Back when we were discussing GETPATH and its
variations, you mentioned something about periods in paths. (Will look it
up later, but I MUST go update the subscription list). Might the fact
that the path in SG 50 includes a directory with a period in it (gs8.15)
be throwing things out of whack? As I said, there is no hurry about this,
but it is a knotty problem I'd like to solve if and when you have time to
advise.

Thanks, Patricia

Patricia M. Godfrey
PMGodfrey@xxxxxxxx


 {{5ab,ab/nv,st,st/nv}} frame as it exists in my version of U2:

XPLeNCODE v2.0
b-gin [UNTITLED]
{{;5ab,ab/nv,st,st/nv}} ABort|STore file & close unused windo
w(s) [CLD][cr|lf]{002};*;        Overrides any New Win
dow ({<}VA$NW{>}) setting that[cr|lf];*;         leav
es current window in use after file is ABorted[cr|lf];*;  {032}
      Usage: AB[/NV][cr|lf];*;        {032}
    ST[[/NV] filename][cr|lf][BX_]{<}SX01,{<}VA$
FR{>}{>}{<}PV01{>}{<}IF{<}VA|50{>}>0{>} {<}PV50{>}{<}EI{>}[Q2
_];*;[cr|lf]{<}IF{<}ER{>}{>}{<}EX{>}{<}EI{>}[BX_]wait[Q2_]{<}
LBa{>}{<}IF{<}VA$WS{>}<1&{<}VA$WO{>}>1{>}[BX_]rs[Q2_]{<}GLa{>
}{<}EI{>}{002}[cr|lf]
-nd
XPLeNCODE