Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!fernwood!apple!well!shiva
From: shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Book Explains Interpreter Internals
Keywords: Inside PostScript
Message-ID: <24892@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 20 May 91 07:16:59 GMT
Distribution: comp
Lines: 10


A good discussion of the interpreter is available in Inside
PostScript (by Frank Merritt Braswell, Systems of Merritt &
Peachpit Press 1989, about $40, white cover), which essentially
takes one on a tour of the standard internal PostScript code in
most printers.  The author spelunked around in the interpreter
and figured out how most normal stuff worked (in PostScript terms,
no low-level hardware stuff here like cexec and internaldict).
 
Ken (shiva@well.sf.ca.us)