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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: %comments and communications drivers
Message-ID: <"70@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 8 Sep 90 01:03:24 GMT
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Reply-To: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Organization: RightBrain Software, Woodside, CA
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In article <6343@adobe.UUCP> taft@adobe.COM (Ed Taft) writes:
>Since Glenn mentioned my name, I suppose I'd better contribute what I can to
>this discussion. I certainly don't want Glenn to eat a toner cartridge; it
>might interfere with his ability to participate in this newsgroup.

Sorry, Ed, I didn't really mean to drag you into this.  But thanks,
nonetheless, for the clarification.

>Comments are not stripped out by the serial driver, centronics driver, or
>any other driver in a PostScript printer. Comments are recognized as such
>only by the PostScript language scanner, which is invoked when you execute
>the file or read it using the token operator, but not when you read it using
>data transfer operators such as readstring.

The main reason I volunteered to eat a toner cartridge in the first place
is because I knew that it couldn't possibly be true that the comments
were being stripped out in the low-level communications driver.  The
secondary reason I volunteered, of course, was so people would send me
toner cartridges, because mine's running out.

>By the way, the subject of this thread doesn't have much to do with its
>content, does it?

I fixed the subject line, for what it's worth.

Glenn

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