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From: lau@kings.wharton.upenn.edu (Yan K. Lau)
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Subject: Password type? (was Re: Changing LaserWriter names)
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Date: 11 Jul 89 12:43:26 GMT
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In article <8368@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> cloos@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (James H. Cloos Jr.) writes:
>serverdict begin 0 exitserver statusdict begin (string) setprintername
>where '0' is the passwd & 'string' is the new name.
>
>-JimC

What is the type of password according to the PostScript language standard?
The reason I ask is that for LaserWriters, the type is a numeric.  However,
I remember distinctly that for the DEC LN03R (DEC's PostScript Printer),
the type of password was a string.  (I personally like a string for more
variety.)  Naturally, code sent as num will get rejected when the printer
is expecting a str.  So, what's the type?


Yan.
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