Re: HP 300XL Postscript BUG!!

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From: Stephen Friedl
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 21:48

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Mark Hilliard writes:
> Come on HP, when you ship the SAME file to  2  printers  side  by
> side  through the SAME PRINT SPOOLER and the HP printer dies then
> HP has a problem.

I support a commercial PostScript interpreter and know firsthand
that just because something doesn't print is not necessarily
evidence that the printer is broken.  I have seen many examples
of things that "worked" on other interpreters but "break" on
ours, and after investigation found that it worked by accident.

Perhaps it is truly a bug, but you need to make sure that the
output is not dependent on undocumented features (especially
before making a big noise).

     Stephen

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From: friedl@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US (Stephen Friedl)
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Subject: Re: HP 300XL Postscript BUG!!
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