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From: steinber@machtnix.ert.rwth-aachen.de (Dirk Steinberg H tenhagen)
Subject: Re: Ghostscript 2.5 is released
Followup-To: gnu.ghostscript.bug,comp.lang.postscript
Organization: /home/e2/steinber/.organization
Distribution: gnu
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 15:41:31 GMT

In article <9208182331.0.UUL1.3#5127@aladdin.com> ghost@aladdin.com (L. Peter Deutsch) writes:

   Ghostscript 2.5 is now released.  Highlights of this release include:

	   - Use of the 'hints' in Type 1 fonts, which significantly
	   improves character quality if you have good fonts.
	   (Unfortunately, of the fonts supplied with Ghostscript, only
	   Courier, Utopia, and Charter are 'good'.)

Can you use Postscript fonts that come with the ATM for Windows or OS/2?
That sure would be nice!

	   - Nearly complete implementation of the Level 2 PostScript
	   filters, including Group 3 and Group 4 fax encodings.

	   - An implementation that runs under Microsoft Windows 3.n.

	   - Better handling of A4 paper size.

   ... plus the usual bug fixes and performance enhancements.  See
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I compiled gs 2.5 on a SparcStation 2 GX with 64 MB RAM, SunOS 4.1.2 using gcc 2.2.2
with -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer. When trying the examples (golfer, tiger, ...) under
X11R5, gs25 seems to be a whole lot slower than gs24. Same thing on 486/33 under Linux/X.

What is happening????

	Dirk
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From: mike@penguin.gatech.edu (Mike Gourlay)
Subject: bug with GS2.5 on MSDOS
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 20:23:42 GMT

I compiled GhostScript 2.5 on a IBM/PC clone with a 80486 running MSDOS 5.0
using the Borland C++ 6.1 compiler using the tbcplus.mak makefile.
It compiled without error and seems to run fine aside from problems with
the HP Color DeskJet 500C drivers.  When I use either of the two
contributed drivers (cdeskjet/cdjcolor or djet500c), I get the error:

Unrecoverable error: VMerror in array

A similar problem occured with the GS2.4.1 using these drivers.
When I reported it, Peter Deutsch send me mail saying that this was a well
known bug, and he obviously assumed that I have Usenet access because he
seemed pissed off that I would bother him with such a well known phenomenon.
He said that the error was a memory allocation problem.
He told me that the next version of GS would fix the bug.
Is there something I missed or is this not fixed?

This time I didn't send the mail to Peter Deutch, I send it to the mail-to-news
server at the ucbvax at Berkeley, and the two authors of the DJ500C drivers,
so please reply by mail and don't whine about the fact that this has been
posted to gnu.ghostscript.bug 5 times before.  First of all I don't have news.
Second of all, this has been out for exactly one day as far as I know,
so I doubt people could have beat me to this bug.

I used these drivers succesfully on a SPARC and an HPUX machine.  Thanks.

Thanks for the code, folks, and I hope you can help me get through this.

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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: claes@sparc2.ikb.uni-essen.de (Heinz-Josef Claes)
Subject: ps2image
Keywords: ps2image
Organization: University of Essen, Germany
Distribution: gnu
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 17:13:42 GMT

How can I use ghostscript to convert a multi-page-postscript-file to multiple
postscript imagefiles? I've to print Chinese texts.
Please send me a command line as an example.

Thanks in advance

Heinz-Josef Claes
University of Essen
Germany
 

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: brian@kokom.mit.edu (Brian McAllister)
Subject: Re: Can't convert Hershey fonts to C
Organization: Bates LINAC, MIT
Distribution: gnu
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 00:02:16 GMT

>From: ghost@aladdin.com (L. Peter Deutsch)
>
>> I am installing Ghostscript 2.4.1, and I wanted to precompile all the
>> fonts.  I get this error when I try to run font2c on any of the
>> Hershey fonts:
>
>As the documentation says, you can only compile Type 1 fonts.
>Hershey fonts are not Type 1.


On further review, I still can't find anything IN THE DOCUMENTATION
that actually says this.  Fonts.doc says:

	"You can compile any font into C and link it into the
	Ghostscript executable."

In the file font2c, it does say:

% font2c.ps
% Write out a Type 1 font as C code that can be linked with Ghostscript.

Apologies if I missed something, but if you have to look this hard to
find it, lots of people are going to miss it.
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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: bb@math.ufl.edu (Brian Bartholomew)
Subject: Where to increase dict sizes to support 250+ fonts?
Organization: University of Florida Department of Mathematics
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 22:07:20 GMT

I am using:

	tarheel# gs
	Initializing... done.
	Ghostscript 2.3  Copyright (C) 1990, 1991 Aladdin Enterprises,
	   Menlo Park, CA.  All rights reserved.
	Distributed by Free Software Foundation, Inc.
	Ghostscript comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details.
	GS>^D

and:

	Ghostview -- An X11 user interface for ghostscript.
	Copyright (C) 1991  Timothy O. Theisen
	
	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
	it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
	the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
	(at your option) any later version.
	
	This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
	but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
	MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
	GNU General Public License for more details.
	
	You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
	along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
	Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
	
	  Author: Tim Theisen           Systems Programmer
	Internet: tim@cs.wisc.edu       Department of Computer Sciences
	    UUCP: uwvax!tim             University of Wisconsin-Madison
	   Phone: (608)262-0438         1210 West Dayton Street
	     FAX: (608)262-9777         Madison, WI   53706


I want to add 154 more fonts to the 68 that were distributed with
GhostScript.  After I add the fonts to the fonts directory and mention
them in Fontmap, I generate a bit of PostScript to test things with:

	tarheel# enscript -p - -fTimes-Roman24 /etc/printcap > /tmp/f
	enscript: 2 lines were wrapped because of length.
	[ 5 pages * 1 copy ] left in -

Then I bring up the previewer:

	tarheel# ghostview /tmp/f

and get the following error, before any of my document is visible:

	Error: /dictfull in --put--
	Operand stack:
	    1  200  /Courier-Bold  0  480  /Times-Roman  /Times-Roman  -dicttype-  -marktype-  -dicttype-  /Frutiger-UltraBlack  (Frutiger-UltraBlack)
	Execution stack:
	    operator_5ce8    --nostringval--  --nostringval--  false  --nostringval--  --nostringval--  1  --nostringval--  operator_b9dc  --nostringval--  --nostringval--  --nostringval--  --nostringval--  --nostringval--  false  --nostringval--  --nostringval--  --nostringval--  --nostringval--
	Dictionary stack:
	    337/401  6/200  17/50  1/2


What dictionary is filling up?  Where do I increase its size?  I tried
some things in gs_*ps but I wasn't successful.


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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: lagrue.wgc-e@rx.xerox.COM (John Lagrue)
Subject: Re: Printing Interleaf 5.3 Postscript files with ghostscript
Reply-To: lagrue.wgc-e@rx.xerox.com
Organization: Rank Xerox, Welwyn Garden City, UK
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 10:29:54 GMT

I have found this too, with no way around it so far.

If it helps, I've generally found that pageview on OpenWindows 3.0 can display
the Interleaf postscript.

Does anybody have any further experiences?

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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (XiaoFei Wang)
Subject: gs2.5//gs386/hplj3 users, attention
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 20:04:11 GMT

Hi,

gs2.5 : gs386 and hplj3 users, 

L. Peter is on vacation, during the mean time, 
could you do me a favor by verifying the
following behaviour of the simple PS file: 

1) Screen preview is always correct. 
2) When printing, the vertical lines are missing. 
3) when commenting out the 4 lines of doing horizontal lines
   verticle lines shows up. 
4) when commenting out the 4 lines of doing verticle lines
   horizontal lines shows up. 

If so, it is clearly a bug in GS version 2.5. 

=====================================================================
%!PS 

100 100 translate 

0 1 16
{ 
15 mul 0 exch moveto 300 0 rlineto stroke
} for  % some horizontal lines      

0 1 20 
{
15 mul 0 moveto 0  240 rlineto stroke
}  for  % some vertical lines  

showpage

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: vince@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (David Vincenzetti)
Subject: Re: bug for Ghostscript2.4?
Keywords: HP Grayscale monitor
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Distribution: gnu
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 08:21:23 GMT

In <ghsu.713822287@critical> ghsu@critical.nswc.navy.mil writes:

>I've installed gs on our HP 9000/700 cluster.   It works very well on
>all the HP730 with color monitor.   But for an HP710 with a gray scale
>monitor, I run into some problem.  I can view golfer.ps but viewing
>other ps files, including chess.ps that come with the distribution and
>some .ps generated by dvips, I got only a black screen.   I have tried
>to compile without added option, or with either -DSYSV or -DSVR4
>since HP UX is derived from System V Unix.  Could this be a bug?  Or
>maybe I should try a more recent version?  I am running gs 2.4 on HP
>workstations running HP UX 8.07 under VUE window manager.    Please
>reply by email.    Thanks in advance!
>-- 
>Guan-Hsong Hsu                   Email: ghsu@critical.nswc.navy.mil
>Nonlinear Dynamics Group
>Mathematics and Information Sciences Branch (R44)
>NSWC DD/WO, Silver Spring, MD 20903-5000
>

I'm having the SAME problem. Who is supposed to be the bug fixer? :-)


Ciao,	David
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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: eeandrew@pyr.swan.ac.uk (e c andrews)
Subject: gs 2.5 bug + FIX for laserjet driver
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 03:13:57 GMT

Summary:
	'out of the box', the laserjet driver from ghostscript v2.5 discards
	all inter-line space, at least on the laserjet+ and laserjetII.

Fix:
	change the escape sequence used to skip blank scan-lines to the one
	used in gs2.4.1

(P.S. on A4 paper, the output is still higher than using (eg. dvijep), but is
better positioned than in version 2.4.1)

Thanks for some great software.

Eddy Andrews
eeandrew@pyr.swan.ac.uk

Context diffs:

*** gdevdjet.c.fixed	Fri Aug 21 01:46:35 1992
--- gdevdjet.c.distrib	Fri Aug 21 01:46:06 1992
***************
*** 316,322 ****
  				fputs("W", prn_stream);
  			   }
  			   else
! 			   {	fprintf(prn_stream, "\033*p+%dY", num_blank_lines);
  			   }
  			}
  			num_blank_lines = 0;
--- 316,322 ----
  				fputs("W", prn_stream);
  			   }
  			   else
! 			   {	fprintf(prn_stream, "\033*b%dY", num_blank_lines);
  			   }
  			}
  			num_blank_lines = 0;

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute)
Subject: gs 2.5 dislikes dvips' PostScript
Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 11:34:47 GMT

Ghostscript 2.5's X11 driver crashes on PostScript generated by dvips. With
other drivers (well, at least with the gif8 driver) there are no problems.

klute@tommy: dvips bug.dvi
This is dvips, version 5.4 (C) 1986-90 Radical Eye Software
' TeX output 1992.06.01:1728' -> bug.ps
<tex.pro>. [2] 
klute@tommy: gs bug.ps 
Initializing... done.
X Error of failed request:  BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  70 (X_PolyFillRectangle)
  Resource id in failed request:  0x5800002
  Serial number of failed request:  15
  Current serial number in output stream:  18

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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch)
Subject: Re: Can't convert Hershey fonts to C
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 06:35:56 GMT

Re <9208210413.AA16165@cookie-crisp>
<BRIAN.92Aug20190216@kokom.mit.edu>:

> >As the documentation says, you can only compile Type 1 fonts.
> >Hershey fonts are not Type 1.
> 
> 
> On further review, I still can't find anything IN THE DOCUMENTATION
> that actually says this.  Fonts.doc says:
> 
> 	"You can compile any font into C and link it into the
> 	Ghostscript executable."
> 
> In the file font2c, it does say:
> 
> % font2c.ps
> % Write out a Type 1 font as C code that can be linked with Ghostscript.
> 
> Apologies if I missed something, but if you have to look this hard to
> find it, lots of people are going to miss it.

My turn to apologize.  The Ghostscript 2.5 documentation (fonts.doc)
does say:

	You can compile any Type 1 font into C and link it into the
	Ghostscript executable.  (Type 1 fonts include any font whose
	name ends with .pfa or .pfb, and it also includes all the
	Ghostscript .gsf fonts except for the Hershey fonts.)

But the 2.4.1 documentation didn't say this.

L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306
ghost@aladdin.com, ...decwrl!aladdin!ghost ; 415-322-0103 voice ; no fax yet
	    "Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery."


Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: gabara@eueh30.tuwien.ac.at (Andrej Gabara)
Subject: clip algorithm
Organization: /eueh50/users/gabara/.organization
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 16:58:09 GMT

Hi all,

does the ghostscript source include an implementation of a clip algorithm,
which clips two general polygons (not just a polygon with a bounding box).

Thank's in advance,

Andrej Gabara
gabara@iue.tuwien.ac.at
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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: jgreely@news.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely)
Subject: Ghostscript 2.5 problem
Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 21:15:58 GMT

Executing the following snippet of PostScript produces interestingly
symmetrical garbage outside the arc, at resolutions below 150:
	%!
	50 setlinewidth
	306 396 100 0 270 arc
	stroke
	showpage

  I've compiled it with GCC 2.1 on a Sun SS2 running SunOS 4.1.1, and
on an HP 9000/750 running HP-UX 8.05 (both running X11R5).  Sun's
bundled compiler produces the same results.  Just for fun, I also
tried it with the pbmraw driver; same thing.  Any ideas?

  Also, at most resolutions I've tried (even above 150), there are
white pixels inside the stroked area, which also appear (in different
places) under GS 2.4.1.  I presume they're related.
-- 
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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch)
Subject: Re: bug with GS2.5 on MSDOS
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 06:12:48 GMT

Re <9208200428.AA14167@cookie-crisp>
<9208192024.AA14584@life.ai.mit.edu>:

> I compiled GhostScript 2.5 on a IBM/PC clone with a 80486 running MSDOS 5.0
> using the Borland C++ 6.1 compiler using the tbcplus.mak makefile.
> It compiled without error and seems to run fine aside from problems with
> the HP Color DeskJet 500C drivers.  When I use either of the two
> contributed drivers (cdeskjet/cdjcolor or djet500c), I get the error:
> 
> Unrecoverable error: VMerror in array
> 
> A similar problem occured with the GS2.4.1 using these drivers.
> When I reported it, Peter Deutsch send me mail saying that this was a well
> known bug, and he obviously assumed that I have Usenet access because he
> seemed pissed off that I would bother him with such a well known phenomenon.
> He said that the error was a memory allocation problem.
> He told me that the next version of GS would fix the bug.
> Is there something I missed or is this not fixed?

As I recall, your original message didn't make it clear as to whether
you were using the Borland compiler or the Watcom compiler.  The
"well known bug" was a "VMerror in setdevice" occurring with the
Watcom compiler; I believe this bug has been fixed.  All other
VMerror bugs, such as the one above, are the result of overflowing
MS-DOS' pitiful 640K address space.  Try compiling Ghostscript for MS
Windows, and running it under Windows in enhanced mode; if this
doesn't help, you need a 32-bit compiler, such as the Watcom
compiler, to get past this.  djgpp would do the trick, except
Ghostscript (at least the version I distribute) doesn't support it
yet.

L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306
ghost@aladdin.com, ...decwrl!aladdin!ghost ; 415-322-0103 voice ; no fax yet
	    "Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery."


Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: U39648@uicvm.uic.edu (Darius Vaskelis)
Subject: Can't find font file ncrr.gsf, substituting Ugly.
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:45:19 GMT

Ok, I'm new to Ghostscript.  I downloaded everything that matched *2.4.1*
from prep.ai.mit.edu and set it up, and then later got the OS/2 2.0 beta
version as well from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

Many Postscript files are looking for a ncrr.gsf font (or ncrbi.gsf or
another variation on ncr*.gsf ) that was not included in the
ghostscript-fonts-2.4.1.tar.Z file.  What is this font?  Where can I get
it?

Thanks!

- Darius
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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: phung@acpub.duke.edu (Cu Phung)
Subject: Re: Ghostscript 2.5 is released
Followup-To: gnu.ghostscript.bug
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.
Distribution: gnu
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 02:52:00 GMT

I have compiled gs 2.5 on two machines.  The Sun cc won't compile the two
dirivers thet used to work in 2.4.1 (bj10e and the cdeskjet(s)).  The two
files it has problems is gdevbj10.c and gdevcdj.c.  I am able to do this
with gcc on the mVAX/3500.  However, now with 2.5, the zoom function
og ghostview 1.3 won't work with my display and the page number won't
show up on ghostview either.  Is there any explanation for this.  I do
notice 2.5 is faster than 2.4.1.

- CGP -

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch)
Subject: Ghostscript 2.5 performance : -(
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 23:43:49 GMT

Several Unix users have reported that Ghostscript 2.5 runs 2-4 times
slower than Ghostscript 2.4.1.

The problem with working with a fast development machine (an 80486/33
in my case) is that one doesn't notice major performance differences.
I just verified that the tiger's head takes 5.3 seconds to render
with Ghostscript 2.4.1, and 12.7 seconds with Ghostscript 2.5.

I don't know how this happened, but I'll find out soon and fix it.

Between this problem and a couple of other reported bugs, I've
decided to do a 2.5.1 release sometime in early September.  I'll do
my best not to introduce any new bugs between now and then.  :-)

L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306
ghost@aladdin.com, ...decwrl!aladdin!ghost ; 415-322-0103 voice ; no fax yet
	    "Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery."


Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: wfp@world.std.com (William F Phillips)
Subject: Re: GS 2.5 vs. HP DeskJet 500
Organization: Codewright Design, Cambridge, MA, USA
Distribution: gnu
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 03:23:34 GMT

In article <1738vgINNjph@agate.berkeley.edu> jtkohl@cs.berkeley.edu (John T Kohl) writes:
:I picked up GhostScript 2.5 yesterday, and the DeskJet 500 driver seems
:to have introduced a couple problems.
:
:(1) Vertical lines may disappear...
: the descenders of "p" and "q" seem to be missing, except for the
:serifs!].

I have found broken descenders and other rendition weirdnesses with the
2.5 djet500 device.  They seem to go away if I use deskjet instead of
djet500.  Purely subjectively, it also seems to print faster with the
deskjet driver (I haven't run any timing tests).

:(2)  The margins are screwed up for the DeskJet 500.  For letter-sized
:paper, the top margin on the DeskJet 500 with perforation skip turned
:off is 0 (according to my manual), not 0.40!

:Again, reverting to the margins used in gs241 makes this problem go
:away.  [Although I wonder whether the original DeskJet really does have
:such a large top margin?]:

You speak truth.  I was just wondering where the hell the missing 3/8"
(approx) at the top of the page went.  Unfortunately, I (and many others
I'm sure) don't have the capability for compiling, especially the 386
version (I even doubt my old Turbo C 1.5 will handle the generic).  I
wonder if there's any chance we'll have fixed executables _real_ soon?

One other point: it looks like dos4gw is incompatible with super-pc-kwik
(caching system), even though superpck is perfectly willing to share
nearly all of its ram with applications.  Disabling it does not work.
It must be uninstalled before gs386 will load and run.  Any insights
anybody?

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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: gnulists@ai.mit.edu (GNU Mailing List Maintenance)
Subject: gs2.5 vs. hp laserjet looses
Summary: gs2.5 laserjet driver gives NO space between lines on lj+ or lj2
Reply-To: eeandrew@pyr.swan.ac.uk
Organization: UC Swansea
Distribution: gnu
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 04:15:18 GMT

Setup:
	Sparcstation 2, SunOS 4.1.1, CFLAGS=-g -O2 -DA4
	devices = x11, sunview, laserjet, ljetplus, epson
	input = latex, via dvips

Printers:
	HP laserjet 2, and
	HP laserjet+ emulation, on an EPSON GQ-3500

Everything goes OK using the sunview, x11 or epson drivers, but when generating
output using -sDEVICE=laserjet all interline space is removed.

The same file printed fine using gs2.4.1 (which, stupidly, I've deleted).
I've tried playing with hp2pbm and jiggling the ESC codes, but I have no
laserjet spec.

Help?

Any comments, advice or related experience welcome!

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