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Re: Ghostscript == line limit?

From Don Lancaster <don@tinaja.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.postscript
Subject Re: Ghostscript == line limit?
Date 2012-11-26 08:25 -0700
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On 11/26/2012 7:46 AM, luser.droog wrote:
> Don Lancaster wrote:
>
>>
>> If I run this program in GhostScript...
>>
>>
>> %!PS
>> 0 1 1000 {==} for
>> % EOF
>>
>>    ... only the last 83 lines or so get printed out  922 through 1000.
>>
>> Why?
>>
>>
>>
>
> As others have suggested, it looks like a bug in the version of ghostscript
> you have installed. '==' is not technically an operator, but a massively
> complicated procedure. Braswell's Inside Postscript devotes two whole
> chapters to the workings of == and =. But since it all boils down to calls
> to 'print', my guess would be that the %stdout buffer is somehow getting
> purged when it should be flushed.
>


Thank you for your response.
But using {20 string cvs print} does the same thing.

I suspect this is a bizarre interaction with windows 8.

A possible but complex workaround might be to write needed into to a 
disk file.

-- 
Many thanks,

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Ghostscript == line limit? Don Lancaster <don@tinaja.com> - 2012-11-25 12:21 -0700
  Re: Ghostscript == line limit? Chris <cjl@spamcop.net> - 2012-11-25 19:50 +0000
  Re: Ghostscript == line limit? Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-11-25 22:12 +0100
  Re: Ghostscript == line limit? "luser.droog" <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2012-11-26 08:46 -0600
    Re: Ghostscript == line limit? Don Lancaster <don@tinaja.com> - 2012-11-26 08:25 -0700
      Re: Ghostscript == line limit? Chris <cjl@spamcop.net> - 2012-11-26 15:31 +0000
        Re: Ghostscript == line limit? Don Lancaster <don@tinaja.com> - 2012-11-26 09:32 -0700
  Re: Ghostscript == line limit? Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2012-11-26 16:24 +0100
    Re: Ghostscript == line limit? Don Lancaster <don@tinaja.com> - 2012-11-26 08:28 -0700
    Re: Ghostscript == line limit? Don Lancaster <don@tinaja.com> - 2012-11-26 09:53 -0700
      Re: Ghostscript == line limit? Chris <cjl@spamcop.net> - 2012-11-26 18:21 +0000
        Re: Ghostscript == line limit? Don Lancaster <don@tinaja.com> - 2012-11-26 11:26 -0700
          Re: Ghostscript == line limit? Chris <cjl@spamcop.net> - 2012-11-26 18:34 +0000
            Re: Ghostscript == line limit? Don Lancaster <don@tinaja.com> - 2012-11-26 13:56 -0700
              Re: Ghostscript == line limit? Chris <cjl@spamcop.net> - 2012-11-26 21:10 +0000
                Re: Ghostscript == line limit? Don Lancaster <don@tinaja.com> - 2012-11-26 17:23 -0700
                Re: Ghostscript == line limit? bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) - 2012-11-26 18:47 -0600
                Re: Ghostscript == line limit? Don Lancaster <don@tinaja.com> - 2012-11-26 18:45 -0700
                Re: Ghostscript == line limit? "luser.droog" <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2012-11-27 23:54 -0600
                Re: Ghostscript == line limit? luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2012-12-18 23:16 -0800
                Re: Ghostscript == line limit? Chris <cjl@spamcop.net> - 2012-11-27 08:01 +0000
                Re: Ghostscript == line limit? Chris <cjl@spamcop.net> - 2012-11-27 08:04 +0000
          Re: Ghostscript == line limit? Don Lancaster <don@tinaja.com> - 2012-11-26 11:38 -0700
            Re: Ghostscript == line limit? Chris <cjl@spamcop.net> - 2012-11-26 18:48 +0000

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