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From: jcb@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Julian Bradfield)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Restoring elements of strings
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Date: 27 Jul 88 13:08:07 GMT
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The current Postscript design does not undo changes made to elements
of strings when it `restore's VM. Despite the warning in the Red Book,
I know programs that use this. Question: do non-Adobe emulations of
Postscript also emulate this bug/feature, or do they correct it?