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From: woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: A question about //add
Summary: O.k., what about other 52.4?
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Date: 18 Nov 90 06:53:29 GMT
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In article <8278@adobe.UUCP>, orthlieb@adobe.COM (Carl Orthlieb) writes:
> 
> The current version of the QMS-PS410 Adobe PostScript interpreter (52.4) 
> does contain a bug which causes // to be interpreted improperly outside 
> of brackets. This bug is fixed in the version of the PS 410 firmware which
> is completing testing and will begin shipping soon.
O.k., what about other 52.4 interpreters?  Is this a common bug for
them as well?  It seems funny that a bug like this all of a sudden
shows up in a feature that was put in many versions ago, and that
one would presume would not change.  I was under the impression that the
core interpreter pretty much stayed the same from manufacturer to manufacturer
as long as it was the same revision number, and the main diffrence was the
actual hardware interface and resolution modules.  Bugs do occur,
more often than not 8) in everyones code.  It seems to me that it would
be very nice if Adobe published a comprehensive list of the various
bugs in the various versions of the interpreter.  I do not think that
it would hurt thier reputation any at all.  There is no such thing as
a complex program that is totaly bug free.

Cheers
Woody

that was put in place many versions ago,