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Article #5550Re: Postscript filenames
From: Bob Heiney
Date: Wed, 01 May 1991 20:34
Date: Wed, 01 May 1991 20:34
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> What I want to know is what are %statementedit and %lineedit for
These files are for use by PostScript interpreters which support
an interactive executive.
Using the file operator on %statementedit accumulates input in
a temporary buffer, parsing editing control chars, until a statement
has been read. A statement is (quoting from the new Redbook) "one or
more lines terminated by a newline that together form one or more
complete PostScript language tokens, with no opening brackets
( {, (, <, or <~ ) left unmatched." When the statement has been read,
file returns.
%lineedit is like %statementedit except that it returns after a line
has been read, regardless of whether that line is a complete statement.
> and what other special files are available?
These are all of the special files that are described by the new Redbook.
See Section 3.8.3, Special Files, pp. 78-80 of the PostScript Language
Reference Manual, Second Edition.
Information about these files is also in the original Redbook.
/Bob
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