Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!samsung!olivea!uunet!usaos!wsrcc.com!wolfgang
From: wolfgang@wsrcc.com (Wolfgang S. Rupprecht)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: HP PS Cart Fatal Blowup Demo
Message-ID: <1990Dec13.223822.28328@wsrcc.com>
Date: 13 Dec 90 22:38:22 GMT
References: <1990Dec8.145818.15028@panix.uucp>
Organization: Wolfgang S Rupprecht Computer Consulting, Washington DC.
Lines: 35

schuster@panix.uucp (Michael Schuster) writes:
>% HP CARTRIDGE FATAL BLOWUP DEMO
>100 200 translate 5 dup scale
>10 {53 45 {0.12 0 360 arc stroke 0} setscreen} repeat
>showpage quit

For the record, this program works fine on a Genuine Adobe (not HP)
Postscript cartridge in a HP-LJ-II.

    $ tip ps
    connected
    PostScript(r) Version 52.3
    Copyright (c) 1984-1990 Adobe Systems Incorporated.
    Typefaces Copyright (c) 1981 Linotype AG and/or its subsidiaries.
    All Rights Reserved.
    PS>
    PS>100 200 translate 5 dup scale
    PS>
    PS>10 {53 45 {0.12 0 360 arc stroke 0} setscreen} repeat
    PS>
    PS>showpage quit
	<one page gets printed, I turn printer power off>
    Connection Closed
    [EOT]
    $

(The page that gets printed is essentially blank with a single
squarish spot with rounded corners.  Squinting at it, it looks a bit
like a square surface mount IC with 3 leads on each of sides, drawn in
perspective.)

-wolfgang
-- 
Wolfgang Rupprecht    wolfgang@wsrcc.com (or) uunet!wsrcc!wolfgang
Snail Mail Address:   Box 6524, Alexandria, VA 22306-0524