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Article #4227Re: HP PS Cart Fatal Blowup Demo
From: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 1990 22:38
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 1990 22:38
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schuster@panix.uucp (Michael Schuster) writes:
>% HP CARTRIDGE FATAL BLOWUP DEMO
>100 200 translate 5 dup scale
>10 {53 45 {0.12 0 360 arc stroke 0} setscreen} repeat
>showpage quit
For the record, this program works fine on a Genuine Adobe (not HP)
Postscript cartridge in a HP-LJ-II.
$ tip ps
connected
PostScript(r) Version 52.3
Copyright (c) 1984-1990 Adobe Systems Incorporated.
Typefaces Copyright (c) 1981 Linotype AG and/or its subsidiaries.
All Rights Reserved.
PS>
PS>100 200 translate 5 dup scale
PS>
PS>10 {53 45 {0.12 0 360 arc stroke 0} setscreen} repeat
PS>
PS>showpage quit
<one page gets printed, I turn printer power off>
Connection Closed
[EOT]
$
(The page that gets printed is essentially blank with a single
squarish spot with rounded corners. Squinting at it, it looks a bit
like a square surface mount IC with 3 leads on each of sides, drawn in
perspective.)
-wolfgang
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