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From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Christmas cards
Message-ID: <16299@coherent.com>
Date: 20 Dec 88 00:02:05 GMT
References: <597@tuck.nott-cs.UUCP> <1901@ogccse.ogc.edu> <712@ssp15.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Reply-To: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
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In article <712@ssp15.idca.tds.philips.nl> jos@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Jos Vos) writes:
> In article <1901@ogccse.ogc.edu> wm@ogccse.UUCP (Wm Leler) writes:
> 
> >Here is a program I used a few years ago to print out Christmas cards.
> 
> I'm sure it's a nice card... but it results (always) in a Fatal system
> error on my LaserWriter IINTX. Do more people have this problem?
> The system error is:
> 
> 	Fatal system error @ 0X400ac358

Yup.  I spent some time trying to debug this puppy today, after one of
our programmers reported that it was causing our LaserWriter Plus to
reset and spit out a new startup-page.

I've been able to isolate the problem (somewhat) to the code "fillpage"
proc.  This proc is called, but never returns... I'm not sure why, as
I'm not a PostScript heavy.  I'd _guess_ that the stack is somehow being
graunched... but I'm far from certain.

A fixed version of this program would be much appreciated!
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