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1 total messages Started by Robert P. Thurstans Fri, 02 Oct 1992 00:05
Negative exponents no longer work for 2.52
#446
Author: Robert P. Thurstans
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 00:05
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The following PostScript code works fine on ghostscript-2.2
but no longer works on ghostscript-2.52

------------------------------
%!PS-Adobe-2.0
1.0E0
1.0e0
1.0E+0
1.0e+0
1.0e-0
1.0E-0
pstack
---------------------------------

The output is as follows:

Initializing... done.
Error: /undefined in 1.0e-0
Operand stack:
    1  1.0  1.0  1.0  1.0  1.0  1.0  1.0  1.0
Execution stack:
    %interp_exit    --nostringval--  --nostringval--  false  --nostringval--  --nostringval--  false  --nostringval--  --nostringval--  --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
    399/479  4/200
Ghostscript 2.5.2 (9/20/92)
  Copyright (C) 1990, 1992 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.
  All rights reserved.
Distributed by Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Ghostscript comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file LICENSE for details.
GS<9>quit

This occurs for any negative exponent.

rpt
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