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Re: Ghostscript 1.3: scanner patch; .exe file

#204
From: Snoopy
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1989 19:37
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In article <8907170530.0.UUL1.3#5127@aladdin.com> ghost@aladdin.com (L. Peter Deutsch) writes:
|1) Snoopy is right about the reason for the crash when you type .123.
|The fix I prefer is to insert the line
|	dval = 0;
|just before the
|	goto ff;
|in iscan.c at approximately line 351.  But I think his fix works too.

I prefer putting it right before the goto ff also, it is slightly more
efficient that way.  I was too tired and/or lazy that evening to analyse
whether or not there was some case that would slip through doing it the
efficient way, so I went for the safe but slightly less efficient fix.

|2) Snoopy is also right (gawd, it's awful dealing with someone who's right
|all the time)

Would it help if I shipped you a copy of my driver for the Ramtek graphics
terminal that doesn't work at all?  :-)

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From: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
Subject: Re: Ghostscript 1.3: scanner patch; .exe file
Message-ID: <256@sopwith.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jul 89 19:37:18 GMT
References: <8907170530.0.UUL1.3#5127@aladdin.com>
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Distribution: gnu
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