Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!hess
From: hess@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Caleb Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Removing ehandler.ps Without Turning Off Power
Summary: Software Reset
Message-ID: <24271@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 4 Aug 89 15:56:49 GMT
References: <1992@optilink.UUCP>
Reply-To: hess@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Caleb Hess)
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In article <1992@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>Does someone have some PostScript to restore the default error handler
>after running ehandler.ps?  I can turn off the printer to do this,
>but it's a shared printer, and it's a lot more convenient to restore
>the state by sending another file.
>-- 
>Clayton E. Cramer {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer
>Deng Xiaoping: why every home needs a rifle.
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Disclaimer?  You must be kidding!  No company would hold opinions like mine!

Here is a way to completely reset your printer without power cycling.  We
run this periodically to ensure that the printer's VM is not accumulating
garbage (since PostScript doesn't do garbage collection).

%!
%  Executes the systemdict/quit operator (as opposed to the userdict/quit
%  operator, which is synonymous with stop or EOF) to reinitialize PostScript
%       (suggested by Guy Riddle in comp.lang.postscript, 8/4/88)       - hess

serverdict begin
0
exitserver
systemdict begin
quit