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From: severyn@athena.ecs.csus.edu (Niles Severyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Postscript
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.212326.26982@csusac.csus.edu>
Date: 22 Apr 91 21:23:26 GMT
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I've been working with the file operator in postscript trying to open
files for writing (for debugging purposes). The interpreter is quite
happy to do it, however when I go out and try to find the file, it
doesn't exist. I've even tried creating the file and letting write to
that. No effect.

I've been trying something like this:

(/Users/staff/severyn/file) (w) file
dup (Hello) writestring
dup flushfile
closefile

I must be doing something wrong. Also, I tried opening (%stderr) for
writing, it does it, but when it gets to the writestring, it returns
an invalid access for that operator.

Also, I was wondering (perhaps this question should go in comp.emacs),
does anyone know of a mode for emacs for editing Postscript files?