Accessing files in Postscript (unix)

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1 total messages Started by Joseph Good Fri, 16 Oct 1992 09:32

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Author: Joseph Good
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 09:32

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Okay, bear with me - I am a very unexperienced PostScript user, and
the only PostScript book at our library is lost.. ACK!

I am trying to access files using PostScript.

I have this so far.

/fp (~/input.dat) (r) file def
/so (%stdout) (w) file def

Correct me if I am wrong, but this defines fp to read from the
~/input.dat file, while /so will print to the stdout.

Now, here is where I go screwey.. 

{
	fp (                                   )
	readstring
	not {so exch writehexstring (\n) print exit} if
	so exch writehexstring (\n) print
} loop
flush


I keep getting an invalidaccess for the readstring command.

Is there something I should be putting as an argument for fp?

suffering from severe brain drain...

-jdg

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--

Joseph Good
+-------------------+ - More than just a band....
| Green Dot Brigade | - It's a whole damn army of dots...
+-------------------+ - And we've declared war on the 7-Up dots...

rscott@nmsu.edu (NeXT mail welcome!!) (main account)

atlantis@acca.nmsu.edu  (Just plain ol' Unix) (seldom used)

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