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From: paul@moncam.co.uk (Paul Hudson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Beyond PostScript
Summary: <> is hex string.
Keywords: PostScript, Forth, Scheme
Message-ID: <136@marvin.moncam.co.uk>
Date: 21 Apr 89 11:07:52 GMT
References: <16993@mimsy.UUCP> <1458@cmx.npac.syr.edu>
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In article <1458@cmx.npac.syr.edu>, chris@goedel.uucp (Chris White) writes:

> stack. Does either PostScript or NeWS use the <> combination for
> some kind of system construct?
> 
>         -- Chris


Yep. Means string with each byte as a pair of hex digits. 
The addition of linve arrays seem of dubious benefit. There are a lot
of things that ought to be fixed in PostScript before worrying about minor
twiddles like this.
Paul Hudson 

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