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Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC

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From Ronald <gettingchoppy@gmail.com>
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Subject Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC
Date Mon, 15 Jun 2020 14:51:36 +1200
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In message <ecf7868058.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk>
          Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> wrote:

> On 14 Jun 2020 as I do recall,
>           Steve Fryatt  wrote:
> 
> 
> [snip]
> 
> 
> > Whilst a pre-existing library is a Very Good Idea, the code above is all
> > that you need (plus the usual to register interest in the two messages with
> > Wimp_Initialise,
> 
> Note that you *will* need to do this, otherwise your task will mysteriously
> fail to receive the messages at all... ask me how I know ;-p
> 

Two places I can think of that you might run binaries from BASIC would
be AppBasic and Confix is predisposed for BASIC scripts.
Actually AppBasic seemed to call a binary OK.
The FilerHRun module is not mentioned much these days but it may
have had this type of usage in mind.
It can run a binary directly from BASIC, but once again you have to
perform a wait. Haven't checked to see if SYS$RETURNCODE is possible.

I'm putting PDF's on my chromebook, quite a fast startup,
not a bad pdf viewer, can do it in bed! (Winter here)
I think the PRM's need a separate index built so you can get to
where you want quicker. For one thing the pdf page numbers differ.

Ronald

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Calling Ghostscript from BASIC "Rob Hemmings (News)" <rhnews@dsl.pipex.com> - 2020-06-08 15:22 +0100
  Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2020-06-08 15:39 +0100
    Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC "Rob Hemmings (News)" <rhnews@dsl.pipex.com> - 2020-06-08 15:44 +0100
    Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2020-06-08 16:19 +0100
      Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2020-06-08 20:22 +0200
        Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2020-06-08 21:15 +0100
          Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2020-06-09 10:58 +0100
            Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2020-06-09 15:09 +0100
              Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC Ronald <gettingchoppy@gmail.com> - 2020-06-13 13:01 +1200
                Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2020-06-13 12:03 +0100
                Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC Ronald <gettingchoppy@gmail.com> - 2020-06-14 01:29 +1200
        Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC "Rob Hemmings (News)" <rhnews@dsl.pipex.com> - 2020-06-08 23:37 +0100
  Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC Ronald <gettingchoppy@gmail.com> - 2020-06-14 16:38 +1200
    Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2020-06-14 07:40 +0100
      Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC "Rob Hemmings (News)" <rhnews@dsl.pipex.com> - 2020-06-14 08:48 +0100
      Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC Ronald <gettingchoppy@gmail.com> - 2020-06-14 20:27 +1200
        Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2020-06-14 10:01 +0100
          Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2020-06-14 15:41 +0100
            Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC Ronald <gettingchoppy@gmail.com> - 2020-06-15 14:51 +1200
              Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2020-06-15 08:56 +0100
                Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC Ronald <gettingchoppy@gmail.com> - 2020-06-15 20:30 +1200
        Re: Calling Ghostscript from BASIC Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2020-06-14 15:44 +0100

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