socat / ghostscript questions

[James B. Byrne]

On Tue, April 20, 2021 12:23, Arthur Chance wrote:
> On 20/04/2021 17:17, Paul Procacci wrote:
>> The hang is most likely because an EOF doesn't get trasmitted over the wire.
>> Adding a timeout I believe should fix the problem.
>>
>> nc -w 1 [addr] [port] < filename.txt
>
> Better to use the -N flag.
>
> -N      shutdown(2) the network socket after EOF on the input.  Some
>         servers require this to finish their work.
>

That worked for me.  Thanks.


$  enscript -p - t2.txt | nc -N 192.168.216.41 9100
[ 1 page * 1 copy ] left in -
1 line was wrapped
$

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