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Re: best method of commenting out blocks of postscript?

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From: Woodrow Baker
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 1990 13:44
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Remember that the NEC 890 throws the comments away at the
serial input routine.  That is, if you test a line for a
comment, you will never see it on the NEC 890.  On other printers
it will cause Cassidy and Green fonts to fail.  It might also
effect block commenting structures.
Cheers
Woody
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printers it will.  This causes Century Software fonts to wokn
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From: woody@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG (Woodrow Baker)
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Subject: Re: best method of commenting out blocks of postscript?
Summary: rember the NEC 890
Keywords: comment blocks
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Date: 7 Mar 90 13:44:23 GMT
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Organization: Unicom Systems Development, Austin (yay!)
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