Re: Counting the pages of a document

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From: Raymond Chen
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1991 20:24

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In article <1941@vidiot.UUCP>, brown@vidiot (Vidiot) writes:
>If the PostScript file is hand written, it could be written such that it will
>print out hundreds of pages, but only be one line in length.  

Even worse...

    0 1 rand { showpage } for

This one-line Postscript program outputs a random number of pages.
(Don't try this at home, kids!)

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From: raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen)
Subject: Re: Counting the pages of a document
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