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Article #3037%comments and communications drivers
From: Glenn Reid
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 1990 01:03
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 1990 01:03
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In article <6343@adobe.UUCP> taft@adobe.COM (Ed Taft) writes:
>Since Glenn mentioned my name, I suppose I'd better contribute what I can to
>this discussion. I certainly don't want Glenn to eat a toner cartridge; it
>might interfere with his ability to participate in this newsgroup.
Sorry, Ed, I didn't really mean to drag you into this. But thanks,
nonetheless, for the clarification.
>Comments are not stripped out by the serial driver, centronics driver, or
>any other driver in a PostScript printer. Comments are recognized as such
>only by the PostScript language scanner, which is invoked when you execute
>the file or read it using the token operator, but not when you read it using
>data transfer operators such as readstring.
The main reason I volunteered to eat a toner cartridge in the first place
is because I knew that it couldn't possibly be true that the comments
were being stripped out in the low-level communications driver. The
secondary reason I volunteered, of course, was so people would send me
toner cartridges, because mine's running out.
>By the way, the subject of this thread doesn't have much to do with its
>content, does it?
I fixed the subject line, for what it's worth.
Glenn
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!adobe!heaven!glenn From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: %comments and communications drivers Message-ID: <270@heaven.woodside.ca.us> Date: 8 Sep 90 01:03:24 GMT References: <9724@goofy.Apple.COM> <438@three.mv.com> <9931@goofy.Apple.COM> <262@heaven.woodside.ca.us> <1549@chinacat.Unicom.COM> <267@heaven.woodside.ca.us> <6343@adobe.UUCP> Reply-To: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) Organization: RightBrain Software, Woodside, CA Lines: 31