Date:  Wed, 19 May 2004 08:17:51 -0300
From:  "Mark Dodel" <madodel at ptdprolog.net>
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: eRedMan Version 0.9.beta.3


From: Herwig Bauernfeind <herwig.bauernfeindDESPAM at aon.at> 

This is the first public beta release of eRedMan, a pipe redirection
manager for eComStation and OS/2. It is a general pipe redirection utility
(like printmon.exe or print2ps.cmd that comes with ePDF). Its equivalent
in the Windows world is RedMon (although eRedMan is quite different!). 

eRedMan is multithreaded and therefore is able to monitor multiple pipes
and associate one program to a particular pipe and execute it, whenever
data was written to the pipe.

It redirects the contents of pipes to a temporary file and calls the
associated program with defined parameters as soon as all the data has
been written to the pipe.

Usage examples:
 - As a replacement for Printmon.EXE using older versions of ePDF.
 - As a replacement for Print2PS.CMD using newer versions of ePDF.
 - Use GhostScript as a printer driver in order to turn your inkjet
   printer into a PostScript printer.
 - Or more general: As eRedMan can install pipes as printer ports.
   Print from any application and process the output using a different
   program automatically with having to fiddle with long commandlines
   everytime.
 - You can do all the above at the same time this without having
   to run multiple instances of PrintMon.EXE or Print2PS.CMD

In addition, you get a decent GUI for managing all this.

Known problems and limitations:

Temporary files are placed into the TEMP directory. eRedMan currently has
a very primitive cleanup mechanism for leftover files, so you will not be
able to run this beta for a very long time (weeks or months) without
restarting it once in a while. 

Depending on the number of usages, who will have to restart eRedMan once
in a while. On a PC that is rebooted daily, this should not be an issue. 

This will be addressed in the next release.

There is no help system implemented currently.

Feedback is appreciated. This is the first public beta, so this is neither
complete nor bugfree, although it works for me quite well. 

Contact me by email in case of problems.

Get eRedMan from hobbes:

 Hobbes Incoming: <http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/eredman09b3.zip>
 Hobbes Search: <http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=eredman>

Have fun,
Herwig Bauernfeind, 19-05-2004
EMail: herwig.bauernfeindDESPAM at aon.at




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