Re: Why use the PostScript command 'exitserver'?

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From: A J Cunningham
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1990 11:24

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In article <4552@me.chalmers.se> lej@me.chalmers.se (Lars-Erik Johansson) writes:
>Can anyone explain to me why the MAC uses the PostScript command exitserver
>when printing?
>
>I can't se any (real) reason to use that command especially when ADOBE
>tell everybody NOT to use the command (page 177 PostScript Language 
>Program Design).

	Let me get this straight. Adobe have put a command in their
PostScript engines and documented it with a 'do not use this command'
comment. It seems to me to be the equivalent of the 'do not push this
button' notice that is GUARANTEED to have everyone pushing the button as
hard as they can (Certainly if they think like me). 	What does
exitserver do anyway?
		Tony
-- 
Tony Cunningham, Edinburgh University Computing Service. erci18@castle.ed.ac.uk

	"If the thunder don't get ya then the lightnin' will."

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From: erci18@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham)
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Subject: Re: Why use the PostScript command 'exitserver'?
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Date: 28 Feb 90 11:24:06 GMT
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