Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!thuban!aronson
From: aronson@thuban.steinmetz (marc aronson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Down Load File
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Date: 23 Dec 87 18:06:41 GMT
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Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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To load a bunch of postscript commands, send the following to the
NeWS server:

		(filename) run

filename is a filename with a full path.  I do it all the time.  In fact,
one of my cdef functions looks something like this:

	cdef cps_init
	  systemdict /my_package known not
	    {
	      (/usr/sungod/aronson/src/newsutils/mypackage.ps) run
	    } if
	  my_package begin
	  100 dict begin

This file contains a bunch of NeWS utilities that many of my applications
use.  These common utilities are loaded only once to each NeWS server.  They
are loaded the first time an application requiring the utilities is executed.
I don't add trash to the system dictionary, because they are all collected
into a private dictionary.  I add one key to the system dictionary that
points to my stuff.

Marc Aronson

aronson@ge-crd.arpa -- steinmetz!sungod!aronson