Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!visix!amanda From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Why does a font need an Encoding vector? Message-ID: Date: 2 Nov 90 19:00:16 GMT References: <1990Oct31.225607.10364@phri.nyu.edu> <1990Nov2.012303.9487@phri.nyu.edu> Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, VA Lines: 21 In article <1990Nov2.012303.9487@phri.nyu.edu> roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes: > I'm surprised you managed to crash the LaserWriter that way. So was I :). It was a LaserWriter, PostScript v38.0. Your mileage may vary. >How bad a crash was it? The effect was almost indistinguishable from a power cycle, except for the error message it managed to send out just before going bouncy bouncy :). Aside from that, it was quite harmless. I posted the code at the time (it's real short), but I'll try and scrape it up again, just for amusement's sake... -- Amanda Walker amanda@visix.com Visix Software Inc. ...!uunet!visix!amanda -- "This is a basic principle of the universe known as `The Law of the Cussedness of Nature.'" --W. Kauzmann