PS_OPEN_FILE(3)

💖 PS_open_file — ok bestie, let's make a file 💖

so you wanna know about PS_open_file? it lives in the Library Functions Manual section 3, which is the "these are C library functions, not commands, don't @ me" section. it's giving file creation energy and honestly? iconic.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <pslib.h>

int PS_open_file(PSDoc *psdoc, const char *filename)

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the vibe: PS_open_file creates a new file on disk and writes the PostScript document into it. brand new file, fresh out the box, no cap. 💅

and the way that it doesn't just hang around forever? when PS_close(3) gets called, the file gets closed. that's the clean-up era, we love a tidy queen. 🎀

now here's the little plot twist bestie — if filename is NULL, empty, or literally just '-', then the file does not go to disk at all. it gets created in memory instead, and you retrieve it with PS_get_buffer(3). yes, an in-memory file. yes, that's a whole mood. 🧚

🌸 RETURN VALUE 🌸

• returns -1 if something went wrong 😭
• returns 0 otherwise 🫶

that's it. that's the whole reporting system. zero means slay, minus one means no.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• PS_open_fp(3)
• PS_open_mem(3)
• PS_close(3)
• PS_get_buffer(3)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manual page was written by Uwe Steinmann uwe@steinmann.cx. thank you for your service, legend. 🫡✨

fr fr, that's the whole page. go forth and open a file, bestie. 🌈⭐

okay bye, this was PS_open_file(3) from the Library Functions Manual — that's the source and the version vibe, periodt. 💖🎀🦋