[pdftex] --ipc

[Gerben Wierda]

On Wednesday, Jul 16, 2003, at 08:55 Europe/Amsterdam, Hans Hagen wrote:

> At 00:51 16/07/2003 +0200, Gerben Wierda wrote:
>> Two questions:
>>
>>         Where is the socket created when I run "tex --ipc"?
>>         Is the IPC feature also implemented in pdfTeX?
>
> pdftex --help
>
> does not report something ipc here; what is this feature?

On unix at least (or any system that supports fifo) you can compile  
this in. It means that the DVI output is written to a file and the  
display system can get signals through the pipe every time a new page  
is ready. It can start displaying before the file is completely typeset.

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> Hans
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