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From: woody@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: seeing dictionary names
Summary: found problem.
Message-ID: <1093@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG>
Date: 18 Mar 90 21:05:37 GMT
References: <7986@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> <3295@hcx1.SSD.CSD.HARRIS.COM> <1085@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG>
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In article <1085@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG>, woody@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) writes:
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> Recently a program that I have has started showing some odd behavior.
> After printing many dozens of pages, it reports  dictfull.  
> we modified the erhandlr to find out the length of the dictionary on top
> of the stack.  The maximum length turns out to be 180.  The programs
> dictionaries are 196 and 80.  Exactly how can you extract the name of
> 
> Cheers
> Woody

We found the problem.  The clients code was not maintaining variables
in it's own dictionary.  It was filling up userdict.  BUT...Maxlength
reports 180 entries for userdict, the documentation says 200.  I have
not found any mention of the fact that there are apparently 20 entries
that are reserved.  When a dictionary is documented as holding 200 entries,
maxlength should return 200......

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