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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 11:38 -0700
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On 11/26/2012 11:26 AM, Don Lancaster wrote:
> On 11/26/2012 11:21 AM, Chris wrote:
>> On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 09:53:45 -0700, Don Lancaster wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/26/2012 8:24 AM, Helge Blischke wrote:
>>>
>>> If I put a very long time delay in the loop, the program faithfully
>>> reports one line at a time, but the final display only shows the last 82
>>> results. The others scroll gone.
>>>
>>> The key question is whether anyone else can duplicate this with
>>> GhostScript and Windows 8.
>>
>> I don't think there is any problem here, and certainly nothing specific
>> to Windows 8.
>>
>> It's simply that the size of the scroll buffer for the gswin32.exe/
>> gswin64.exe window is ~80 lines.
>>
>> If backchannel data like this is important to you, you might consider
>> running gswin32c.exe/gswin64c.exe in a command prompt window instead.
>> Then you can set the scroll buffer to the size you want.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>
> This sounds like the problem.
>
> Is there a way to put a PostScript command INSIDE a program that alters
> the scroll buffer size on the fly?
>
>
>


Strangely, the 82 line limit seems to be independent of how many 
characters are in each individual line.

The underlying program need that discovered the problem had about 60 
characters per line; it too stopped at 82 lines.

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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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