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From: hicham@olsen.UUCP (Hicham Bahi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: BUG
Message-ID: <218@wander.UUCP>
Date: 20 Feb 91 14:14:40 GMT
Reply-To: hicham@olsen.UUCP (Hicham Bahi)
Organization: Olsen & Associates, Zurich, Switzerland
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PostScript Bug?

I have noticed a strange behavior of both my Laser printer
and Ghostscript: I wrote the following programm:

/str 10 string def
150 280 moveto
currentpoint 280 eq str cvs show

The display I got from both my Laser printer and
Ghostscript was FALSE. I printed the stack after the
currentpoint operator and its top element was 280. So
can somebody explain to me why the eq operator returns
FALSE ? Of course, I checked some other values like 4,
109, 40 but the result was the same, except for values
like 300 or 400. It seems improbable that it's a bug
because the behavior of Ghostscript and my Laser
printer was the same. So what's the problem ??? 

HICHAM (hicham@olsen.uucp.ch)