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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Reading Data From PostScript
Message-ID: <2013@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 18 Apr 88 03:12:22 GMT
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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Does anyone have an example of a program that reads data and performs
some operation on that data?  (Data that isn't necessarily all ASCII).
It appears that the releases of PostScript after 28.0 have the provision
for reading data without ^T, ^D, ^C, and ^S/^Q being intercepted.  If
this is really the case, how does end of file get recognized?  Or does
a PostScript program have to sense end of file based on the data?

Does anyone know how to detect a lapse of time in PostScript?  I don't
see a timer function of any sort, and looping for n iterations is highly
dependent on the hardware.

Clayton E. Cramer
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