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Re: Export pipe problem

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  • Subject: [mg85013] Re: [mg85009] Export pipe problem
  • From: "Igor C. Antonio" <igora at wolf-ram.com>
  • Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:39:29 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
  • References: <200801221039.FAA08323@smc.vnet.net>
  • Reply-to: igora at wolf-ram.com

Thomas BOHL wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

Thomas,

We will investigate this problem.  Thanks.

Igor

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