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LaserPrep Varsity

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From: Dave Yost
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1988 02:48
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With psfig comes a file, "doc/figs/mac.pro".
My version of that file is at least as old as December 9, 1987
(could be a lot older--don't you love shar files?).

I just tried to use it to print a Microsoft Word PostScript
output file and got this error:

%%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: mul ]%%
%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%

Is there a later version of "mac.pro"?  I need it.  Thanks.

 --dave yost

Here's the comment at the head of my mac.pro:

%!
% Modified slightly by Ned Batchelder, University of Pennsylvania [Ned].
%
% Modified slightly for Textset.  Changes are marked with "jjs".
%    Jim Sterken
%    September 20, 1985
%
% ------------
%
%		 Macintosh LaserWriter header file.
%
% This is a file of PostScript definitions that can be affixed to the
% front of the PostScript files generated by Macintosh applications in order
% that they can be printed on a LaserWriter that has not been initialized
% with the "LaserPrep" package. This situation will arise if you are
% trying to share a LaserWriter between Macintosh users and non-Macintosh
% users.
%
% Macintosh applications do not normally generate straight PostScript.
% They generate a file in PostScript format, but the contents of the file
% is a series of calls on functions that are not part of the PostScript
% language. This file defines those functions.
%
% This is not the official Apple header file. It is neither endorsed nor
% condemned by Apple. I suspect that it probably started out its life
% as a bootleg copy of a version of the Apple header file. It has been
% slightly modified by me and perhaps heavily modified by various other
% people. I have substantially augmented the comments so that they explain
% what I think the code is doing.
%
%	Brian Reid	Reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA
%	Stanford	{decwrl,hplabs,bellcore}!glacier!reid
%
% WARNING: There is no guarantee that Apple will stick to this particular
% set of definitions. This header file works with the application software
% that came with my LaserWriter; I make no promises that it will work with
% the software on anybody else's LaserWriter.
%
% To convert this file back into a downloaded file instead of a header
% file, uncomment all of the lines beginning with %-%
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From: day@grand.UUCP (Dave Yost)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: LaserPrep Varsity
Keywords: mac,postscript
Message-ID: <420@grand.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jun 88 02:48:26 GMT
Organization: Grand Software, Inc., 213-650-1089, Los Angeles, CA
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