Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!decwrl!adobe!heaven!glenn
From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Problems with forwarding PostScript files
Message-ID: <130@heaven.COM>
Date: 1 Feb 90 15:41:28 GMT
References: <807@granite.dec.com>
Reply-To: glenn@heaven.UUCP (Glenn Reid)
Organization: Glenn Reid (at home), NeXT, Inc.
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In article <807@granite.dec.com> rwood@dec.com (Richard Wood) writes:
  After copying both the email message of such a ruined file, and getting 
  the source by direct network copy, I compared the two and discovered many 
  diffs similar to this:
  
  	766c766
  	< -180 x 180 48 R 50 y -180 x 180 48 R 50 y -180 x 180 48 R 744 x
  	---
  	> - -180 x 180 48 R 50 y -180 x 180 48 R 50 y -180 x 180 48 R 744 x
  
  The problem became immediately apparent - the ULTRIX (and presumably all
  UNIX) 
  forwarding mechanism adds a "dash space" to any dashes it finds in the first 
  column.  I don't know the history of this, but it has only been an annoyance 
  previously - primarily messing up underlined titles, etc.

I don't think it's "(and presumably all UNIX)"; I haven't seen that happen.

Here's a workaround that you might try.  Put the following code at the
beginning of the program somewhere, in a suitable place (or just download
it into your printer outside the server loop or something):

/- { } def

The "-" character is a legal PostScript name, so you can redefine it to
do nothing.  The document should then execute okay.

Glenn Reid