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Re: Why is my file access mode wrong

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Cecil Westerhof wrote:

> I am still experimenting with postscript. I now have a script which
> starts with:
>     /inputFile INPUT (r) file def
> 
> I call it with:
>     ps2pdf -sINPUT=quotes.org quote.ps
> 
> But get:
>     Error: /invalidfileaccess in --file--
>     Operand stack:
>        inputFile   (quotes.org)   (r)
>     Execution stack:
>        %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--  
>        --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--  
>        --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push  
>        1910   1   3   %oparray_pop   1909   1   3   %oparray_pop   1893  
>        1   3   %oparray_pop   1787   1   3   %oparray_pop  
>        --nostringval--   %errorexec_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--  
>        --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push  
>        --nostringval--
>     Dictionary stack:
>        --dict:1175/3371(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:77/200(L)--
>     Current allocation mode is local
>     Current file position is 26
>     GPL Ghostscript  9.00: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 

the ps2pdf utility calls Ghostscript with the option "-dSAFER" which denies 
any file operations except for %stdin and %stdout.

Helge

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Why is my file access mode wrong Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-12-02 13:54 +0100
  Re: Why is my file access mode wrong Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-12-02 14:22 +0100
  Re: Why is my file access mode wrong Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2012-12-02 17:47 +0100
    Re: Why is my file access mode wrong Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-12-02 20:01 +0100

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