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From: tecot@Apple.COM (Ed Tecot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Why use the PostScript command 'exitserver'?
Message-ID: <39744@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 22 Mar 90 21:56:09 GMT
References: <4552@me.chalmers.se> <2523@castle.ed.ac.uk> <2324@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <2324@rodan.acs.syr.edu> isr@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Michael S. Schechter - ISR group account) writes:
>It's been a couple of years since I've looked at the Adobe Postscript
>Manual, (in Inside LW), but I'm pretty sure Adobe warns you not to
>use exitserver unless you know what your doing, NOT just not to use it.
>There are some very good uses for it. This instruction causes the current
>job to end, but keeps the interpreter running, so whatever changes you
>now make are to the permament state of the machine. (like changing
>EEROM values). I don't know specifically why  your MAC had sent it, but
>I woudn't be alarmed. 

From this description, it sounds like something that the Mac would want to
do.  The Laser Prep file loads the interpreter full of aliases that reduce
the size of the PostScript that needs to be transmitted.  I assume that
if 'exitserver' was not called, then all this work would be lost.

						_emt