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From: mcmahan@netcom.COM (Dave Mc Mahan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Post 1.5 problems
Message-ID: <1991Mar31.045234.17001@netcom.COM>
Date: 31 Mar 91 04:52:34 GMT
References: <388@mixcom.COM> <1991Mar29.234834.7203@unislc.uucp>
Organization: Dave McMahan @ NetCom Services
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 In a previous article, dave@unislc.uucp (Dave Martin) writes:
>From article <388@mixcom.COM>, by oovvoo@mixcom.COM (Mike Shawaluk):
>> I recently acquired Post 1.5 (a PostScript interpreter library &
>> CrossDOS.  The problem I encounter is when I attempt to use that font, I
>> get an error message referring to "eexec" (sorry, I didn't write down
>> the exact error message, but it's easily reproducable).  I tried this
>> with a number of fonts that I had converted, and they all seem to give
>> the same error message.  As a "by the way", I was able to download some
>> fonts via a FTP site, and those .PFB files worked just fine!
>
>I too have noticed this "eexec" problem, with fonts that work fine
>on a NeXT.
>
>Also, I aquired a file called warbird.PS (I believe it was from
>ab20.larc.nasa.gov somewhere, look in FILES.Z).  It also works
>fine on the NeXT, but apparently causes an infinite loop in Post 1.3-1.5.
>I've never tried an earlier version of post with it.  It is necessary to
>reboot to get out of it, Post just locks up.
>
>I like this program very much, but am disturbed by these
>annoying problems with the eexec and the lockup.
>
>I hope the author can be made aware of them and fix them.

There is a BBS in Palo Alto, Calif. Where the author of Post calls into.
He lives in England, and I'm not sure if he has Usenet access.  If you
send me DETAILED explainations of what is going wrong with the latest version
of Post (must be the latest, I doubt he is trying to support superceded
versions), I'll cross post on that BBS system for you and let you know if
I get an answer.  You might also try posting to the PostScript newsgroup
for an answer to your problem, or at least a forwarding address for the
author.

If you want to try this method, please try and focus the problem on the
smallest size of PostScript file that is causing the problems.  I don't
want to try and have the author modem a 300 Kbyte file across half the
world and find out that it was something silly in the first three lines of
the PostScript.  He pays the phone bill.

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   -dave



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