Can you send parameters to a postscript program

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From	Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
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Is it possible to give parameters to a postscript program?

If so, is the following possible: I have defined colours. Say that I
want to use colorYellow. Can I give the string collorYellow to the
program and let setrgbcolour use the value of the variable
colorYellow?

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Cecil Westerhof
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Can you send parameters to a postscript program Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-11-18 00:00 +0100
  Re: Can you send parameters to a postscript program "luser.droog" <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2012-11-17 19:29 -0600
    Re: Can you send parameters to a postscript program tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2012-11-17 22:49 -0500
  Re: Can you send parameters to a postscript program Don Lancaster <don@tinaja.com> - 2012-11-20 15:05 -0700
  Re: Can you send parameters to a postscript program bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) - 2012-11-21 17:51 -0600

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