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From: ghost@aladdin.com (L. Peter Deutsch)
Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
Subject: Ghostscript 1.3: scanner patch; .exe file
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Date: 17 Jul 89 12:30:09 GMT
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1) Snoopy is right about the reason for the crash when you type .123.
The fix I prefer is to insert the line
	dval = 0;
just before the
	goto ff;
in iscan.c at approximately line 351.  But I think his fix works too.

2) Snoopy is also right (gawd, it's awful dealing with someone who's right
all the time) about the reason that the DOS executable crashes.
I was in such a hurry to put out the release before I left town that
I accidentally distributed an executable that only runs on 80386 systems.
A revised executable is on its way.

		- P. D.

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