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• Subject: [mg85009] Export pipe problem
• From: Thomas BOHL <Thomas.Bohl at cern.ch>
• Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:39:33 -0500 (EST)

Dear All,

using Mathematica Vers. 6 on Linux, I expected that

Export["!lpr", fig, "EPS"]

should work like advertised in the Documentation Center, instead, I get
an error message

lpr: error - stdin is empty, so no job has been sent.

The same happens with

Export["!lpr", "Hello World", "Text"]


Does anybody have a idea why stdin could be empty?


Of course, Export["fig.eps", fig, "EPS"] works fine and lpr also.


The documentation says,

Export["!prog",expr, ...] exports data to a pipe.




Thanks for any idea.


Kind regards,
Thomas.

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