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Re: EOF indication to PostScript printer

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From: Richard Seymour
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 1990 20:44
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In article <1423@chinacat.Unicom.COM> woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) writes:
>In article <5398@milton.u.washington.edu>, seymour@milton.u.washington.edu (Richard Seymour) writes:
>>   Red Book:  page 290  Appendix D: Apple LaserWriter
>>     the paragraph just below the table.
>My copy of the RED book has the index on page 290, and appendix D is
>only 2 short pages, and makes no mention of the Laserwriter...
>There has been some confusion in the past, with page numbers in the
>red book.  The version that I have is the second printing, nov 1986.
>
>You must have a older version of the red book?

yes, mine is an OLDER copy: labeled "second printing: december 1985"
with the print sequence code just above that as BCDEFGHIJ-HA-898765
(i believe that each letter gets chipped off as they update, so
  the next version would be CDE..., and i'll guess that the trailing
   numbers might be the year code)

... and i see by another posting that an April 1987 (6th printing)
  has the appendix too.

Imagine -- WOODY ends up being the person with the edition WITHOUT
the critical Appendix...

This almost reads like the time Eastern Airlines bumped Ralph Nader
by overbooking -- which was the seed which sprouted into the "they
owe you money and a free flight if they bump you" practice/rules
existing today.  But with software companies , WE get to pay for
upgrades (if we find out they exist).

(good luck) try
%% dick
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From: seymour@milton.u.washington.edu (Richard Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: EOF indication to PostScript printer
Summary: in-again, out-again
Keywords: file  end  EOF  big secret
Message-ID: <5516@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 25 Jul 90 20:44:57 GMT
References: <5556@sunquest.UUCP> <5398@milton.u.washington.edu> <1423@chinacat.Unicom.COM>
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Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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