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Started by Nicolas Tamburri
Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:39
Request for info
Author: Nicolas Tamburri
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:39
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:39
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I've been banging my head against a wall lately with what I think is a pretty simple problem, but I may be too thick to see the solution to. Any help would really be appreciated: I have a spooler program which downloads a prelude to a PS printer (level 1 PS assumed.) The prelude does an exitserver, defines some helper routines in userdict to make printing ASCII easier and a rudimentary error handler, and exits leaving the routines "permanently" in VM. This works fine for all PS files except those generated on NeXTs using FrameMaker. They abort with a dictfull error because they overflow the userdict capacity. (I define about 3 dozen routines.) I see 2 solutions to this problem: 1. Ideally, I'd like to put all my routines into a spooler specific dictionary, and leave userdict alone. Unfortunatelly, I can't figure out how to push a dictionary onto the dict stack, and have it stay there between jobs. Reinitializing the stack order at the beginning of each job wouldn't work, because a program can fool around with the dictionary order anyway. 2. Extend the userdict capacity by the number of definitions I define in my prelude. I can't figure out how to do this either. Can it even be done? Apologies if all this is too trivial for you wizards, and I hope it's not a FAQ. Again any help would be appreciated, and you can send it directly to me. If enough people express interest, I'll post a summary. Thanks again. /nt nick@sw.stratus.com
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