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From: taft@adobe.com (Ed Taft)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Bug in definition of defineuserobject?
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Date: 12 Jan 91 22:24:25 GMT
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In article <43.UUL1.3#5127@aladdin.com> ghost@aladdin.com (L. Peter Deutsch) writes:
>The quasi-definition of defineuserobject on p. 400 of the PostScript
>Language Reference Manual (Second Edition) is:
>
>	userdict /UserObjects get
>	3 -1 roll put
>
>Am I right in thinking that the second line should be
>
>	3 1 roll put

Right you are! Interestingly, this error is also in the Display PostScript
System Reference manual, but nobody has ever noticed it.

As far as I know, this is the first substantive error anyone has found in
the new red book (though we've already spotted dozens of nits). Perhaps
Adobe should award you some sort of prize.

Ed Taft      taft@adobe.com      ...decwrl!adobe!taft