Re: [Groff] Problem using groffer with evince

[Ted Harding]

On 02-Aug-09 23:32:27, Blake McBride wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Ted Harding
> <address@hidden>wrote:
> 
>> On 02-Aug-09 19:20:39, Bernd Warken wrote:
>> >> Von: "Blake McBride" <address@hidden>
>> > T>      groffer --ps --ps-viewer evince groff
>> >> It doesn't display the pages (although "evince file.ps" works
>> >> fine).
>> >
>> > I tried that with groff 1.18.1 of Debian testing and the actual
>> > CVS-code of 1.20.1.
>> > In both variations, xour groffer command worked without problems.
>> > The temporary file was not deleted. even wtih several evince
>> > programs
>> > running.
>> >
>> > Maybe your evince version is buggy.
>> > Bernd Warken
>>
>> I too just tried to test whether 'evince' behaves according to Ralph
>> Corderoy's suggestion:
>>
>>  "This can be seen at the command line. Ensure no evince is running.
>>   Type `evince foo.ps' and the shell prompt shouldn't return until
>>   you close evince's window. Now repeat, but whilst that one's
>>   running, do `evince bar.ps' in another terminal window. The shell
>>   prompt will almost immediately return showing evince has exitted.
>>   It has passed the work onto the already running evince."
>>
>> I did exactly that -- starting two instances of 'evince' from separate
>> terminal windows on different files.
>>
>> Result: Two instances of 'evince' running in two different 'evince'
>> windows and displaying the two different PS files. The shall prompt
>> in the first window did *not* return, and its 'evince' window
>> remained up.
> 
> 
> Not surprising.  The real question is what the _second_ shell prompt
> did.

Nothing. It too remained active. In other words, the result of each
call to 'evince, in each separate window, was identical. Neither
shell prompt returned until the instance of 'evince' it invoked
was closed (by hand).

Ted.

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