Re: Why does a font need an Encoding vector?

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From: Amanda Walker
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 1990 19:00

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In article <1990Nov2.012303.9487@phri.nyu.edu> roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
writes:
>	I'm surprised you managed to crash the LaserWriter that way.

So was I :).  It was a LaserWriter, PostScript v38.0.  Your mileage may
vary.

>How bad a crash was it?

The effect was almost indistinguishable from a power cycle, except for the
error message it managed to send out just before going bouncy bouncy :).
Aside from that, it was quite harmless.

I posted the code at the time (it's real short), but I'll try and scrape it
up again, just for amusement's sake...
-- 
Amanda Walker						      amanda@visix.com
Visix Software Inc.					...!uunet!visix!amanda
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From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker)
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Subject: Re: Why does a font need an Encoding vector?
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