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From: Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: getting system information from a PS program
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Michael Unger wrote:

> On 2012-01-25 02:10, "Odysseus" wrote:
> 
>> In article <9o87h2F8tgU1@mid.individual.net>,
>>  Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> wrote:
>> 
>> <snip>
>> 
>>> |  %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: currentdevparams ]%%
>>> |
>>> |  Stack:
>>> |  (%Calender%)
>> 
>> Check your spelling of "calendar", maybe.
> 
> Grrr. You are right of course -- but it doesn't make any difference at
> all. Whether used with parantheses or without, whether used witn a
> capital "C" or with a lower case "c", the error messages are the very
> same.
> 
> Michael
> 

To check if the Calendar device is implemented in distiller, try

(*){==}32 string /IODevice resourceforall

and look at the output for the listed devices. FYI, Ghostscript (version 
9.02) lists the following:

(%statementedit%)
(%os%)
(%rom%)
(%Calendar%)
(%stdout%)
(%lineedit%)
(%pipe%)
(%null%)
(%stdin%)
(%stderr%)


Helge