Re: Can anyone save my sanity -- help me to understand filtering?

[Graham Douglas]

Hi Uwe

Thanks for your response
but I don't know/use unix at all
(I'm using Windows 98) so the 
unix stuff meant little to me, I'm
afraid. What I really need is an
example that works  with Windows 98.
Something as simple as, say, 
using the DOS "copy" command
copying file1.eps to file2.eps 
(about as simple a filter you can get)
and then importing file2.eps.
I tried a copy example but 
Dos system messages ended up in
the PostScript file!?

Does anyone use filtering with
Win 98 or am I the only one?

I have tried and tried and tried 
to get filtering to work, it just 
won't. I can't believe it is 
such a complex procedure. I've even
compiled Lout (Visual C++) and stepped 
through the C code in desperation,
still no joy. Perhaps it just does
not work on Windows, which is
a real shame. Maybe Jeff could 
fix this in a future release.

The only one success was the 
@Sort example in the manuals, 
but trying to run other programs,
no chance. 

This has all become pretty depressing
and really disappointing; obviously 
there is a part of this
puzzle I haven't seen or
understood. 

Feeling extremely fed up,

Cheers

Graham