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.