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From: kibo@pawl.rpi.edu (James 'Kibo' Parry)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript vs TrueType?
Message-ID: <AN'%21*@rpi.edu>
Date: 6 Sep 90 22:41:46 GMT
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In article <20146@well.sf.ca.us> shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter) writes:
>Woody posted code containing the following fragment as an
>example of something that would hang an NEC LC890, with the
>request that fellow LC890 owners would test it.
> 
>{
>	currentfile(   )readstring
>	{
>		(%%%)eq		%look for separator
>		{
>			exit
>		}if
>	}
>	{
>		pop		%hangs, looking forever
>	}ifelse
>}loop
>%
>% ...bunch of PostScript code to skip over...
>%
>%%%%%%
> 
>Sorry, Woody, but your LC890 file works just fine on my LC890.
>It finds the (%%%) and exits. 

It also seems to work for others--the DTP program "PageStream" uses it
when downloading fonts (so that the fonts are skipped if they're already
known).  (PageStream's prep file looks for "%%%%%" and not "%%%", but
that doesn't matter...)  As far as I know, PageStream works on those
printers.

-- 
james "kibo" parry, 138 birch lane, scotia, ny 12302 <-- close to schenectady.
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