[tex-k] ipc and tex

[Tom Rokicki]

Right; if this is the same as the ipc functionality I put in nearly 30 years
ago, remember that this simply communicated information about completed
pages to a dvi previewer when machines were hundreds of times slower.

Almost certainly these days it is no longer interesting.  Frankly I would
simply remove any documentation of these features completely.  They
were a bandaid for when processing a file could take many minutes and
people wanted to preview parts of the dvi file as TeX was still running on
the remainder.

-tom

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
> Hi Nicolas,
>
>     Where can i find precise informations about the -ipc and -ipc-start
>     options ?
>
> The source code.  Sorry, but that's the reality.  You are the first
> person who has written anything about them in many years; writing a
> bunch of documentation for an audience of zero people has never appealed.
> (I'm also doubtful of the utility of the feature nowadays.)
>
> best,
> karl



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