[Info-vax] Local Versus Global Command Options

Lawrence D'Oliveiro ldo at nz.invalid
Mon Feb 17 20:21:24 EST 2025


On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:38:57 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 2/17/2025 4:49 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 12:02:37 -0700, Mark Berryman wrote:
>>>
>>> $ gs -q -P- -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sstdout=%stderr
>>> -sOutputFile=<something>.pdf <something>.ps
>>>
>>> Again, see?  No quoting.  No case conversion.  Ghostscript sees the
>>> command exactly as I typed it and I typed it exactly as I would on a
>>> *nix system.
>> 
>> Can you show us a simple C program that just prints out its command
>> arguments, and how it responds to some sample command lines?
> 
> Why would we do that?

To prove that Mr Berryman is blowing smoke out his arse.


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