Re: golf.ps

From	luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.postscript
Subject	Re: golf.ps
Date	2011-11-11 17:46 -0800
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On Nov 11, 6:50 pm, Eli the Bearded <*...@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
> In comp.lang.postscript, luser- -droog  <mijo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Oh, no. *In* the golf.ps file, just after 'begin'.
>
> %!
> currentdict {exch == ==} forall
>
> <<0[[0 1 9{}for]{ %numbers is numbers
>     scale %letters is commands
>     moveto
>     lineto
>     closepath
>     fill
>     showpage}]{{1 index 1 add}forall}forall pop
>
> /&{{(36#?)dup 3 4 3 roll put token pop exch pop load exec}forall}

  >>begin %<---You lost a line here! This creates and pushes the dict.

> 72 72(a11b12c22c21cdef)&
>
> > I don't really have high hopes of figuring this out remotely,
> > but seeing what's actually in the dictionary would be the
> > first step.
>
> The text box for the alert doesn't offer a scroll bar, so it had a
> lot of text I didn't see before. I think I copied it all this time.
>
> /a4small
> {595 842 {/statusdict --.systemvar-- --begin-- .setpagesize --end--} --exec--}
> [...]

This is just the contents of userdict.
Not what we needed, but no harm done.

> > first star that's being executed. If so, then adding the
> > dictionary dump will trigger the same undefined error as
> > before. Otherwise, at least we can see what *is* in there.
>
> Well, there it is.

I think it's enough.
It looks like it was *my* blunder to put >> at the beginning
of a line. Your newsreader must have done something to it.

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golf.ps luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2011-11-06 12:03 -0800
  Re: golf.ps Ross Presser <rpresser@gmail.com> - 2011-11-07 11:10 -0800
  Re: golf.ps Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2011-11-08 01:27 +0000
    Re: golf.ps luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2011-11-07 22:41 -0800
      Re: golf.ps Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2011-11-09 00:34 +0000
        Re: golf.ps luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2011-11-08 17:16 -0800
          Re: golf.ps Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2011-11-11 01:27 +0000
            Re: golf.ps luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2011-11-10 21:03 -0800
              Re: golf.ps Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2011-11-12 00:50 +0000
                Re: golf.ps luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2011-11-11 17:46 -0800
                Re: golf.ps Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2011-11-12 03:21 +0000
  Re: golf.ps luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2011-11-08 01:34 -0800
    Re: golf.ps luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2011-11-10 13:16 -0800

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