Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder.erje.net!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:48:03 -0600 From: ken Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: How many input files can gs handle? Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:47:59 -0000 Message-ID: References: <2d96e695-159d-4428-840a-8bc53475ffeb@y12g2000vba.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: ken@spamcop.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4 Lines: 15 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-p5ax1KDy9l1XRokzqGaeEol+Kh5MqWpN7xPWbtom5J0Ygmw8aI35OLlgYi1I8qpBkbuRGZlxiVMgxeV!NMCGMGRLTPzOeSwpx4oCJLkgoev1ZihKYQpee4KG1WrIljICSI9nQw0dxXi8alKxkpiGAR3anXrM!NfiCTQRT44D/9JOfZA== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1591 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.postscript:500 In article <2d96e695-159d-4428-840a- 8bc53475ffeb@y12g2000vba.googlegroups.com>, francois.d.robert@gmail.com says... > > On Dec 14, 6:31 pm, ken wrote: > > > if you try to specify each file on the command line you > > may end up reaching an OS limit. > > Hmmm. Wasn't the @filename feature invented precisely for those > cases ? Yes, you could do that, but it doesn't seem any easier than executing 'run' on each file.