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From: batcheldern@hannah.enet.dec.com (Ned Batchelder)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: best method of commenting out blocks of postscript?
Keywords: comment blocks
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Date: 15 Mar 90 23:54:14 GMT
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How about prefacing the block with

	save (

and postfacing (?!) the block with

	) pop restore

This is much simpler than the procset posted, and works with a few
restrictions:

1. You can't comment out more than 64K characters
2. You need to have enough VM available to store the commented characters
3. You need to have space on the operand stack for two objects
4. You need to have one save level available

Those don't seem too harsh.

Ned Batchelder, Digital Equipment Corp., BatchelderN@Hannah.enet.DEC.com