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Ok.  I've bit my tongue for too long about this Control-D stuff.
I can't hold it in any longer....

FLAME ON

Control-D should not be in the PostScript file.
Don't confuse the Language with the transport mechanism.
You don't put Control-S and Control-Q in your file do you?
Yet they serve the communication protocol as importantly
as Control-D.

Control-D does not mean End of File or End of Session or whatever in
PostScript.  Check out the red book (RTFM).

I've got several PostScript printers that are connected to an
Ethernet.  You don't send down a Control-D on the ethernet to
indicate End-Of-File.  You send a Packet with the FIN bit set,
or some other protocol dependent thing.

Maybe I want a Control-D in my file.  Maybe I don't want to
have my spoolers filter it out.  Maybe my code looks something
like...

	/foobar currentfile 8 string readstring Foo\004Bar\003 def

I'm tired of PC weanies coming to bitch at me because their
PostScript files won't work on my printers.  And I look at
their PostScript, and they have Control-D in them.

This is just another example of how
the PC is setting back Computer Science at least decade.

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