How to pipe dvips output through Ghostscript?

[Richard Stanton]

I'm trying without success to pipe the output from dvips through
Ghostscript, and thence to a Deksjet 550 printer.

If I run dvips to create a PS file, say utah99.ps, and then at the command
line type

type utah99.ps | gswin32c -sDEVICE=cdj550 -dNOPAUSE -

The file is printed perfectly on my printer, as expected. Now I want to
achieve the same result in one step, piping the output from dvips directly
into gswin32c. However, I can't manage to get this to work.

If I try the following:

dvips utah99 -n 1 -o | gswin32c -sDEVICE=cdj550 -dNOPAUSE -

I just get a PS file, and nothing comes out of the printer.

If I try

dvips utah99 -n 1 -o "| gswin32c -sDEVICE=cdj550 -dNOPAUSE -",

I get the following output:

This is dvips(k) 5.83 Copyright 1998 Radical Eye Software
(www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 1999.02.09:1437' -> | gswin32c -sDEVICE=cdj550 -dNOPAUSE -
<texc.pro>Aladdin Ghostscript 5.50 (1998-9-11)
Copyright (C) 1998 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.  All rights
reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.

The mswindll device is not supported by the command line version of
Ghostscript.  Select a different device using -sDEVICE= as described
in Use.htm.
Error: /undefinedfilename in (gswin32c)
Operand stack:

Execution stack:
   %interp_exit
.runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval-
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:846/941(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:49/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: No such file or directory
<pstricks.pro><8r.enc><texps.pro><special.pro>. Loading Helvetica font from
c:\p
Loading Helvetica-Oblique font from c:\psfonts\hvo_____.pfb... 1943486
601943 14
Loading Helvetica-Bold font from c:\psfonts\hvb_____.pfb... 1983666 634771
14497
GS>

Trying the following:

dvips utah99 -n 1 -o | "gswin32c.exe -sDEVICE=cdj550 -"

yields

Unknown command "gswin32c -sDEVICE"

What can I do to get this to work? I've tried playing with config.ps, with
essentially the same results.

Richard Stanton