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From: ddl@husc6.harvard.edu (Dan Lanciani)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Problem using eexec (need help)
Message-ID: <1567@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 90 00:30:38 GMT
References: <31807@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge MA
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In article <31807@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, david@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (David Dantowitz) writes:
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| I converted the following file into eexec format as shown below.  How
| can I get the eexec format to work?
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| When I print it (in eexec format) I get:
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| ERROR: invalidaccess
| OFFENDING COMMAND: def

	For reasons that are probably now obvious, eexec pushes
systemdict of the dictionary stack before running the encrypted code.
The "def" therefore trys to alter a readonly dictionary and fails...
Adding something like "userdict begin" should solve the problem.

				Dan Lanciani
				ddl@harvard.*