Changeset 2032 for trunk/gsdl

Timestamp:

2001-02-20T19:00:42+13:00 (23 years ago)

Author:

jrm21

Message:

added .ps to the usage, fixed typo in comment.

File:

• trunk/gsdl/bin/script/gsConvert.pl (modified) (4 diffs)

trunk/gsdl/bin/script/gsConvert.pl

@@ -3 +3 @@
 ###########################################################################
 #
-# gsConvert.pl -- convert documents to HTML ot TEXT format
+# gsConvert.pl -- convert documents to HTML or TEXT format
 #
 # A component of the Greenstone digital library software
@@ -34 +34 @@
 # conversion utilities.   We can convery any file to text with a perl 
 # implementation of the UNIX strings command.
-
+#
+# We try to convert Postscript files to text using "gs" which is often on
+# *nix machines. If it isn't (or we're running on Windoze), we do some feeble
+# text extraction on it using regexps.
 
 BEGIN {
@@ -53 +56 @@
     print STDERR "              or text using third-party programs.\n\n";
     print STDERR "  usage: $0 [options] filename\n";
-    print STDERR "  options:\n\t-type\tdoc|pdf\n\t-output\thtml|text\n";
+    print STDERR "  options:\n\t-type\tdoc|pdf|ps\n\t-output\thtml|text\n";
     print STDERR "\t-timeout\t<max cpu seconds>\n";
     exit(1);
@@ -67 +70 @@
     # read command-line arguments
     if (!parsargv::parse(\@ARGV,
-             'type/(doc|pdf)/', \$input_type,
+             'type/(doc|pdf|ps)/', \$input_type,
              'output/(html|text)/', \$output_type,
              'timeout/\d+/0',\$timeout,