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Article #8862Re: HELP! Bug in blue book ?
From: Ross A. Jeynes
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1990 06:21
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1990 06:21
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In article <1006@manta.NOSC.MIL> grantk@manta.NOSC.MIL (Kelly J. Grant) writes:
>what I did. I was using the Circular Text, program
>10, page 167 of the blue book. I checked every
>single line against the book, but got nothing but
>blank page. My setup is such that I cannot watch
There is a pretty common mistake that people make when typing in this
program. Because the text is Helvetica (i.e. a proportional font), the
following line is often mis-typed since the space character isn't as wide
as the other characters:
() dup 0 charcode put outsideplacechar
should really be:
( ) dup 0 charcode put outsideplacechar
% (^add space here)
There's another line further down in the program that needs to be changed
in a similar manner. The reason this bombs is that the put operator is
trying to put a value into a string which has no storage associated with
it.
Good luck...
Ross Jeynes
Developer Support jeynes@adobe.com
Adobe Systems Incorporated {sun|decwrl}!adobe!jeynes
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lll-winken!decwrl!adobe!jeynes From: jeynes@adobe.COM (Ross A. Jeynes) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: HELP! Bug in blue book ? Message-ID: <1744@adobe.UUCP> Date: 3 Feb 90 06:21:39 GMT References: <1006@manta.NOSC.MIL> Reply-To: jeynes@adobe.UUCP (Ross A. Jeynes) Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View Lines: 29