From: Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.demon.co.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [9fans] how people learn things (was architectures)
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 09:04:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9kcit1$s1s$1@inputplus.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <393106249@snellwilcox.com>
Hi Steve,
> > This is effectively what I've done in the past on Unix. Either
> > instruct your version of vi to execute a command on every write of
> > the file or have a script watching the file which does `groff ...
> > >x.ps'.
>
> Wasn't this in Kernighan and Pike (The Unix Programming Enviroment) -
> waitfile.c I don't have it to hand, but I'am pretty sure its there.
I've just looked; you're right. watchfile, exercises 7-12 and 7-17,
sounds like it does this.
> > gv, a GhostScript viewer, already has an option to refresh when the
> > PostScript file changes. This has the advantage that you remain at
> > the bottom of page 5 rather than a new window opening on page 1.
This is the particularly handy bit though.
Ralph.
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2001-08-02 11:18 steve.simon
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