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Re: behandler.ps .... actually used it ? Useful ?

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From: Bill Neisius
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 06:59
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H.Shrikumar (shri@unreal.cs.umass.edu) wrote:
: Nothing happened when I sent it with a PS file with a known typo
: to a DEC LN03 ScriptWriter. Hmm ... bug in the debugger ! :-)
: 
:   So I got talking to Fred, to whom this utility is tracable, when
: I learnt that each PostScript printer has different names for the
: server dictionary etc.  So in general behandler.ps cannot be
: general purpose.

The LN03 ScriptWriter uses a "non-standard" password for the serverdict:
(LN03R) instead of 0 in "normal" printers.  Change the first 0 in
behandler.ps to (LN03R) and it might work....

Bill Neisius
bill@solaria.hac.com
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