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From: schuster@panix.uucp (Michael Schuster)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Is HP PostScript known to hang mysteriously?
Summary: Bugs in HP/Adobe PS Cart
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.134809.213@panix.uucp>
Date: 6 Dec 90 13:48:09 GMT
References: <1019@quiddity.queensu.CA> <1734@chinacat.Unicom.COM>
Organization: PANIX - Public Access Unix Systems of NY
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In article <1734@chinacat.Unicom.COM> woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) writes:
>
>Don Lancaster has mentioned the same sort of things to me.  His
>opionion is that the version of PS for that particular machine
>in cartridge form is riddled with bugs.  He has a rather extensive
>list.  I believe some of them have been documented over on the

Actually, to my knowledge he has documented two. One is specific to the
IID/IIID, and involves the fact that -copypage- is not side-sensitive on
a duplexing printer. This slows it down considerably.

The other one =I= discovered while running a Lancaster demo file of different
screen parameters. A certain combination of -arc- and -setscreen- in
repetition somehow overflows an internal stack and produces a cartridge
crash. If you use the cart interactively, the interpreter echoes back
"Fatal System Error @ [address" This is consistent, happens EVERY TIME,
and is associated with an error message on the LCD followed by a hard
reset.

HP is aware of both bugs. As of this writing they have not given the
slightest indication that they intend to fix either of them.


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