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Re: PostScript vs TrueType?

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From: Woody Baker Eagle Signal
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 1990 04:37
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In article <7214@umd5.umd.edu>, zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston) writes:
> In article <1513@chinacat.Unicom.COM> woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM
> (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) writes:
> 
> >			currentfile(   )readstring
> >				{
> >				(%%%)eq		%look for separator
> >					{
> >					exit
> >					}if
> >				}
> I think this is broken.  Seems to me this will read 3-character chunks from
> the input and compare them against %%%, but if the stuff being skipped is

That is why the string of comments is 6 characters long.  That way you
should be garanteed to get at least one match.  I tried making the
line 10 or 12 characters long, and it still failed.  I also tried
changing the (%%%) to something else like (***)  and changing the
line of comments to
%***********

This failed also.

What I cannot understand, is why this works on a PS-810, and Apple
Laserwriters, but fails on the NEC 890. (and only the nec 890 to my
knowlege).  I know that things worked flawlessly on my PS-810, but
failed on the nec 890.

Cheers
Woody
> <newline> % %  or % % <somethingelse> and fail to find the target.
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From: woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript vs TrueType?
Summary: hmmm
Message-ID: <1527@chinacat.Unicom.COM>
Date: 30 Aug 90 04:37:28 GMT
References: <9724@goofy.Apple.COM> <438@three.mv.com> <9931@goofy.Apple.COM> <7214@umd5.umd.edu>
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