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Article #1984

Re: Ignoring Lines

#1984
From: Andrew Klossner
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:30
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	"Is there any way to tell Adobe PostScript Level II (or Level
	I) that the next 10 lines are comments WITHOUT adding a comment
	character in front of those next 10 lines?"

If those lines are not within a procedure body, you can do something like:

	/buffer 256 string def
	10 { currentfile buffer readline pop pop } bind repeat

  -=- Andrew Klossner  (andrew@frip.wv.tek.com)
                       (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)
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From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Ignoring Lines
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Date: 26 Aug 92 22:30:18 GMT
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Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville, Oregon
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