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Article #6076Re: Query re `arc'
From: Jim Graham
Date: Wed, 22 May 1991 00:51
Date: Wed, 22 May 1991 00:51
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CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu (Christopher Tate) writes: |> If you ask it to draw an arc when there is no current point, shouldn't it |> give you a 'nocurrentpoint' error? From the redbook: If there is a current point, the arc operator includes a straight line segment from the current point to the first endpoint of this arc and then adds the arc itself into the current path. If the current path is empty, the arc operator does not produce the initial straight line segment. In any event, the second endpoint of the arc becomes the new current point. ...jim
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!bendenweyr!flar From: flar@bendenweyr.Eng.Sun.COM (Jim Graham) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Query re `arc' Keywords: RTFM Message-ID: <13769@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 22 May 91 00:51:10 GMT References: <93.UUL1.3#5127@aladdin.com> <91140.211918CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu> Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: flar@bendenweyr.Eng.Sun.COM (Jim Graham) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 15