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From: zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: problems in : (fred + tom) show
Summary: Works on my PS, what kind of PS interpreter you using?
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Date: 15 Mar 90 18:22:55 GMT
References: <276@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz>
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In article <276@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> pwatson@mqccsuna.mqcc.mq.oz
(Phil Watson) writes:

> (fred + tom) show
> Postscript will "crash" on the plus, what is needed is to do
> (fred \+ tom) show

I just sent this program to my Laserwriter, without error:

100 100 moveto /Courier findfont 10 scalefont setfont
(fred + tom) show
showpage

and got a piece of paper containing pretty much what one would expect...

Respectfully suggest the problem is in your particular Postscript
interpreter rather than in Postscript as a language.

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