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From: hallett@armstrong.steinmetz (Jeff A. Hallett)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs,comp.unix.questions,ge.sun-gods
Subject: GNU Emacs and mp
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Date: 9 Aug 88 12:54:50 GMT
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Some of you may be aware of the mp filter that was made available over
the network a while ago (its purpose is to take UNIX mail files as
input and process them so they will pretty-print to a PostScript
printer).  Well, I've been trying to call that from a
call-process-input inside Emacs.  If I substitute the command "cat"
for the "mp" command, I get the correct output.  Using "mp" as the
command, gives me no output at all.  Apparently, mp is doing something
kind of funky with stdin that I can't determine.  (I've tried using
full pathnames and shell scripts too with the same effect.)

If anyone out there can offer any help, I'd be much obliged.  Please
send me mail as I don't read some of these newsgroups much.

Jeffrey A. Hallett                     | ARPA: hallett@ge-crd.arpa   
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