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From: Henry McGilton
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 06:27

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In article <86579@ut-emx.uucp> tai@utpapa.ph.utexas.edu (Tai Morris) writes:
    *  I need a program that parses a postscript file to see how
    *  many pages will be printed. Please don't tell me this is
    *  impossible - it's impossible that it is impossible because
    *  postscript printers know how to parse postscript files.
    *  Otherwise, the printer could be fooled, too.
Really?  How many pages will this program print?
    /Courier findfont 72 scalefont setfont
    1 1 rand {
        300 400 moveto 16 string cvs show
        showpage
    } for
    
    
    ........  Henry

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From: henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us (Henry McGilton)
Subject: Re: Page accounting
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