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From: rsilverman@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Control characters and such in PostScript
Message-ID: <14410@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: 28 Mar 90 18:47:21 GMT
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In article <891@gug.UUCP>, jazz@gug.UUCP (Jeff Roberts) writes:
> In article <9613@shlump.nac.dec.com>, batcheldern@hannah.enet.dec.com (Ned Batchelder) writes:
>> 11x17 and 11x17tray are references to paper that is 11 inches by 17 inches. 
> 
> Yeah, I knew that, but why are they in my postscript? They aren't defined
> as macros above, and I don't see them in the red book. Are they something new
> or what?
> 

Jeff,

The red book documents the standard PostScript language.  Specific implementations
will generally contain many other operators, dictionaries, etc. peculiar to
themselves, such as the serverdict, statusdict, $printerdict, etc. in a
LaserWriter.  Your 11x17tray is one of those -- it must exist on whatever
machine the output was intended for.

                                                Richard Silverman

arpa:	rsilverman@eagle.wesleyan.edu           Systems Engineer
bitnet:	rsilverman@wesleyan.bitnet              AM Computer Products
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