Re: [Wvware-devel] Re: wvMime

[Martin V. <mar...@hu...>]

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 01:37:20AM -0400, Dom Lachowicz wrote:

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> So your wvMime now becomes something like:
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> #todo: check number of args
> 
> #all of the old wvMime functionality
> TMPPS="/tmp/${1}-${$}.ps"
> wvPS ${1} ${TMPPS}
> if [ ${?} != "0" ]; then
>   echo "Could not translate into Postscript"
>   exit 1
> fi
> 
> #try gnome ghost-view firs
> which ggv
> if [ ${?} == "0" ]; then
>   ggv ${TMPPS}
> fi
> # now try plain ghostview
> which gv
> if [ ${?} == "0" ]; then
>   gv ${TMPPS}
> else
>   # TODO: kde??
>   echo "Neither ggv nor gv seem to be installed!"
>   exit 1
> fi
> 
> exit ${?}

...so it adapts to the desktop environment used. Cool! The reason I want 
*gv in there is that one also may want to print the document, like one
can from other available Word viewers.
 
> >Dom, one more thing: The mailing list wvware-devel. I think it should be 
> >mentioned
> >on the project web page, and we should use it to document what's going
> >on (including discussions like this). It already archives itself so
> >people will find it thru the search engines.
> It is on the project page and mentioned on wvware.sourceforge.net. It's in 
> the paragraph on mailing lists. Maybe I'll make it a little more prominent.
 
Ah, I must have overlooked it.

> >BTW I am supposed to set up a project/CVS for libwmf as well. Would you 
> >think
> >it could be under the wvware project (I understand that CVS allows multiple
> >roots under the same project like wv/, libwmf/, ... )
> I'll set this up for you. Do you have a tarball that I can add to the 
> repository or should I just create a blank directory for you and let you CVS 
> add the necessary files?
> 
> Dom

There is a most recent tarball (0.1.17) on Caolan's site. Nothing has happened
since then AFAIK. It's easiest to just import it.

It is in here:

http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/publink/libwmf/

Martin

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