So, after a brief respite, I've returned, refreshed.

And, unfortunately, as usual, with problems:

I have this program, sort of a wrapper, if you will, written in Perl, that scans a directory for PostScript files, and for each one found, asks the user weather or not to convert it to a .PDF file, using the underlying unix / adobe distill command. Well, our version of distill is waaaay out of date, and certain PostScript level files cause distill to hang (I believe level 1, but for some reason, 2 & || 3 dont). Is there a way, other than having the user Control-C out of the program, change the name of the file, and rerun the program, to detect how long the distill command has taken, or if it has a problem (there is no error produced, just a hanging sensation.)?

If there is, I'd like to implement it, and halt the distill process, inform the user of the error, and go on about our merry business...



Thanks in advance,

E-Bitch
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