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Re: Error in Blue Book ?

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From: mark isaak
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1991 18:07
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In article <1991Jun6.141025.16592@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> parker@geomag.gly.fsu.edu (Bill Parker) writes:
>I think I have found an error in Adobe's Blue Book, specifically
>in the code for the Circular Text (Program 10). I need this
>routine but keep getting an "out of range error"

I seem to remember this problem coming up before.  The source
of confusion is a narrow space character in the listing.
What looks like "() dup ..." should be "( ) dup ...".
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From: isaak@imagen.com (mark isaak)
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Subject: Re: Error in Blue Book ?
Summary: "( )", not "()"
Keywords: Circular text, Blue Book, error
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Date: 7 Jun 91 18:07:38 GMT
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