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Re: rotation in postscript (stupid question)

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From: Tom Schneider
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:38
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In article <1992Jul21.184121.20437@unlv.edu> grover@isri.unlv.edu writes:

>% Compase Rose ? (An Attempt any Way)
(program deleted)

This bombed under OpenWindows 2 with this message:

Welcome to X11/NeWS Version 2
***ERROR***
Process: 0x2fc088 (fcs260c2 NeWS client)   Error: rangecheck
Stack: 12.0 (12.)
Executing: 'cvs'
At: {... 0 'moveto' 90 'rotate' s *'cvs' 'show' 'grestore' 'grestore'}
In: Reading file(?,W,R)
*****

It drew a circle with ticks and 3 numbers; then a second displaced ticked circle.
On my LaserWriter NTXII I just got the first circle and nothing else.  It's
debugging time!

  Tom Schneider
  National Cancer Institute
  Laboratory of Mathematical Biology
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  toms@ncifcrf.gov
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From: toms@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider)
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Subject: Re: rotation in postscript (stupid question)
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Date: 22 Jul 92 12:38:27 GMT
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