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two windows again

#250
From: Hal Peterson
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1989 19:36
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I am using Ghostscript 1.4 on Sun-3/280s and Sun-3/50s under SunOS
3.5 and X11R4alpha, compiled with GCC 1.36, and an old bug has
resurfaced:  on startup, gs opens two windows and only uses the second
one. The problem is in ghost.ps and the patch is below.

*** ghost-DIST.ps	Thu Aug  3 01:31:44 1989
--- ghost.ps	Tue Oct  3 14:19:11 1989
***************
*** 309,315 ****
  % Map the screen height to an 11" page.
  % This is not necessarily the best compromise.
  DISPLAYING
!  { defaultdevice setdevice
     .device.height 72 11 mul div
     [1 index .aspect.ratio mul 0 0 4 index neg 0 .device.height]
     .device.width 8 idiv .device.height { } framedevice pop
--- 309,315 ----
  % Map the screen height to an 11" page.
  % This is not necessarily the best compromise.
  DISPLAYING
!  { % defaultdevice setdevice
     .device.height 72 11 mul div
     [1 index .aspect.ratio mul 0 0 4 index neg 0 .device.height]
     .device.width 8 idiv .device.height { } framedevice pop

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From: hrp@boring.cray.com (Hal Peterson)
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Subject: two windows again
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Date: 12 Oct 89 19:36:55 GMT
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