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From: mende@porthos.rutgers.edu (Bob Mende pie)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: A REAL postscript calendar
Message-ID: <Apr.12.00.55.37.1988.2602@porthos.rutgers.edu>
Date: 12 Apr 88 04:55:38 GMT
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In article <8804112027.AA19801@decwrl.dec.com> chavez@cookie.dec.com
(Dale - 522-2336/3905) writes:
>
> What kind of code precedes the Postscript calendar?  It looks somewhat like
> C, but when I try and compile using VMS, I get tons of compiler errors.
>
> Dale

  The code that precedes the PostScript calendar is unix cshell
commands.  It is a hack to do the following.

o	allow a command line interface to postscript.
o	allow the month and year to be taken from a command line and
	set in postscript.
o	print the file...

   Now I am sure that there is a way to do a similar hack in vms ...
but I dont know if there is a equivalent of the <<EOF
construct of sh/csh.   If you want to make the calendar remove
everything before the %! and modify the following...

/month $month def		/month month-you-want-1-12 def
/year $year def			/year year-you-want-in-19xx-form def

and then print it by hand ... what the csh code does is take your
command line args and replace $month and $year appropritly.


						/Bob

ps... you also could print it on a UNIX(tm) machine.
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