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From: andersen@reality (Robert Andersen)
Subject: Re: NO NUMBERS! (or even SHORT INTS!)
Organization: Encompass
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 16:21:35 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.003421.1246@RedBrick.COM> jfr@RedBrick.COM () writes:
> I can see the need for memory
> conservation to some degree, but certainly there is no performance
> benefit on most machines today (there may even be a performance penalty
> in obscure cases).  I can also see the need to store short ints on disk
> for databases since memory can multiply radically when you have large
> databases.  But for in-memory structures, particularly counters and indexes
> and thinks like that, there is simply no justification to use short ints.

  Why would you use a long when a short would suffice.  If your reading a file  
in 80 byte increments would you declare a 5000 byte string to hold the data.

>  Why would you EVER use NUMBERS in a program.

  Maybe you had to support multiple versions of functions in one program, don't  
flame me in this it is just a thought; a function that complies to some  
standard name ieeeblah().

  Basically your problem is that the coder used a short int without realizing  
that it only has two bytes and could only store -32768 to 32767.  It wasn't a  
problem with the types.  That's like saying I used a byte and I didn't realize  
that it could only hold 256 values.  Besides you could have made it unsigned  
and increased the size.

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From: kaf@terem.perm.su (Kostarev A.)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.objective-c
Subject: Help! @interface, @implementation etc
Date: 5 Oct 92 11:39:46 GMT
Reply-To: kaf@terem.perm.su
Organization: Terem Limited

Hi Guys:

In "[FAQ] A Simple Sample Objective-C Programm" (Bill Shirley)
we have found several unknown
construction : @interface, @implementation etc..
We have read "Object-Oriented Programming" An Evolutionary Approach
(August 1986), but can't find this constructions.

Can somebody say what means these keywords and where can we
find full formal descriptions of additional possibilities.

--------
Alexey F. Kostarev
Igor N. Avtaev
Newsgroups: comp.lang.objective-c
From: mleung@ee.ualberta.ca (Max Leung)
Subject: Creating objects from scratch with GCC 2.x
Summary: Can it be done without NeXT and Stepstone objects?
Keywords: help, objective-c, objects
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 05:36:22 GMT

After reading the FAQ and Object-oriented Programming: An Evolutionary
Approach, I realized that all the example programs #imported stuff from
Object.h or other similar files.

These files do not come with the GCC compiler! GCC has no Object class!

How do I make a factory object make an instance of itself in the absence of
NeXT's Object implementation or StepStone's ICPak Object?

I don't have a NeXT, and the computer I work with is not supported by
StepStone. :(

What good is GCC's Objective-C implementation if it can't be used? :(

Please respond email. I'll post a summary of any replies I receive.
Max Leung

(mleung@bode.ee.ualberta.ca)
From: lerman@seltd.UUCP (Kenneth Lerman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.objective-c
Subject: Re: Objective C systems (FAQ?)
Date: 19 Sep 92 14:08:35 GMT
Reply-To: lerman@seltd.UUCP (Kenneth Lerman)
Organization: Systems Essentials Limited

In article <1992Sep15.091411.5728@rdg.dec.com> Tim.Murnaghan@ime.mts.dec.com writes:
...
|Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I am interested in details of suppliers of
|Objective C compilers for a variety of platforms , including
|DEC, SUN, HP *nix boxes with X-windows; DOS, NT with Windows; (and Next of
|course, but that's easy).
|I would be interested to know what the folk out there are using and any
|comparative good/bad points.
...

The Stepstone Corporation
75 Glen Road
Sandy Hook, CT 06482
(203)426-1875

Stepstone supplies Objective-C compilers and runtime libraries for:
DEC, SUN, HP, DOS, DG, IBM-RS6000, Silicon Graphics Indigo,...

Also windowing libraries (ICpak201) for X on DEC, SUN, ...

I believe this is in the FAQ.

Disclaimer:  I am a consultant for Stepstone and a holder of their stock.

Ken


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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: mcba@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au (Michael C. B. Ashley)
Subject: restricting access to networked printer
Organization: University of New South Wales
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 00:15:49 GMT

Hi,

After connecting my Apple LaserWriter IIg to the ethernet in order
to speed up printing of images, I find that anyone in the university can
(and does) print random documents on it. Is there some way of
restricting access to the printer? What I am thinking about is writing
some sort of simple wrapper to the interpreter which requires a password
before letting the rest of the postscript through. Can this be done? 

Alternatively, is there some way of stopping the printer appearing as an
option on each of the several hundred Macs on campus? 

Thanks for any help,
Michael Ashley mcba@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: alf@uni-paderborn.de (Alf Wachsmann)
Subject: 300dpi --> 400dpi?
Reply-To: alf@uni-paderborn.de
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, Germany
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 08:33:28 GMT


I would like to have a tool, which converts GIF-Files to 400dpi(!!)-
PostScript.
(I know several tools, which produce 300dpi output)

OR:

How can I convert a 300dpi-(colour-) PostScript file containing a bitmap
image to 400dpi-(colour-) Postscript


Thansk,
           Alf.


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From: shin-jungshik@CS.YALE.EDU (Jungshik Shin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Looking for 'enscript-like-program' for 3-column printing at UNIX
Keywords: enscript,postscript,3-column,print
Date: 4 Oct 92 00:41:22 GMT
Organization: Yale University



  I'm not sure whether this newsgroup is a right place to direct my 
question. I wish I chose right one and I'd like you to excuse me if not.   

  I'm looking for an 'enscript'-like program with 3 or multicolumn output 
functionality. As those who read manual page of 'enscript' command in UNIX 
know, enscript does not allow output in more than 2-column.  Actually, some
enscript manual page admits that it's a problem that it does not have
functionality of 3 or more column printing.

  It's been long time since enscript was made. I guess there must have been
some effort to get multicolumn postscript output from a plain text file.

  Would you please send me any relevant information. I would greatly
appreciate it. 

   Jungshik Shin
   jshin@minerva.cis.yale.edu.

 Please send me an e-mail. I'll summarize if there's anything useful to
others.
From: friedl@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US (Stephen Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: need help with xpr's PostScript conversion
Date: 6 Oct 92 18:15:44 GMT
Organization: Steve's Personal machine / Tustin, CA

Hi folks,

     Perhaps this belongs in the X newsgroup, but I don't feel
real at home there -- PostScript is more my thing.  I support a
PostScript interpreter for the V-Systems VSI*FAX product, and
a customer has reported a problem converting X window dump files
into the .fax format.

     The window dump is all grayscale, with white letters, and
the problem is the grayscale background -- it's a 50% halftone.
Those of you familiar with the T.4 encoding scheme know that this
is about the theoretically worst possible pattern to send, and
we're seeing 15- and 20-minute transmission times for a single
page.

     Normally I would just set a different screen or modify the
transfer function, but it seems that xpr is converting the
halftone into the ultimate on-and-off bits -- we get a one-bit
deep image with no useful grayscaling information to shortcut
around.

     I am not real motivated to learn X, and if somebody else
has already gone down this road, it would help me a lot.  In
the meantime, I'll be trudging through the source to xpr...

     Stephen

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From: cccdavid@othello.ucdavis.edu (The Gentleman Loser)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: looking for postscript driver
Date: 29 Sep 92 19:34:05 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, UC Davis


I suppose this might not be the correct place to ask (apologies),
but I have looked everywhere I could think of.  

Does anyone have or know if the existence of a postscript driver for
Lotus ver 2.2.  I have been able to encapsulate the text printouts, but
I still need a graphics driver for printgraph.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

	--dave

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From: sasha@uflash.UUCP (Alexander Shugayev)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: HELP me with composing a page please !
Date: 2 Oct 92 22:38:46 GMT
Organization: cfX inc., NYC.

Hi!

What I need to be able to do is:

I compose a page with a table on it. In the midle of the page I realize
that the table wouldn't fit and I need another ( right hand ) page to 
continue the table.

______________________________ _____________________________
|                            | |                           |
|        REPORT              | |                           |
|                            | |                           |
|blah blah blah              | |                           |
|                            | |                           |
|----------------------------- |------------               |
|123 | 123 | 123 | 123 | 123 | | 123 | 123 |               |
|----------------------------- |------------               |    
|                            | |                           |
|End of report.              | |                           |
|                      page 1| |                   page 1a |
|____________________________| |___________________________|

I compose page 1a, print it out, and then I want to continue
to work on page 1 to place "End of report." string on it and
print it out. How can I store what I've already placed on the
page, then print out another page, throw back in the contense
of the preserved page, add somthing and print that page out as
well?

Thanks for any help or hint!
         
                          Alexander Shugayev
                          sasha@cfx.COM
                          uunet!uflash!sasha
From: johns@haggis.ccsf (John Salmon)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: patterns in Level 1
Date: 3 Oct 92 15:57:27
Organization: Caltech Concurrent Supercomputing Facility.
Distribution: all
NNTP-Posting-Host: haggis.ccsf.caltech.edu


I'd like to fill a path with a pattern, but I only have a Level 1
PS printer.  The PostScript Language Reference Manual (p. 200) says
"it is possible to achieve a limited form of patterns in Level 1 
by defining them as characters in a special font and showing
them repeatedly."

My question is:  has anybody got code to do this?  I can pretty much
see how to do it (using pathbbox and some arithmetic to figure out
how many times to replicate the glyphs), but I'd hate to reinvent
the wheel if this is something that has been done by others.  Any help
would be appreciated.

Thanks
John Salmon		 Internet: johns@delilah.ccsf.caltech.edu
206-49 Caltech		 UUCP: johns%delilah.ccsf.caltech.edu@uunet.uu.net
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: rmf@chopin.cs.columbia.edu (Robert M. Fuhrer)
Subject: Re: Boundingbox???
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Columbia Univ.
	<RMF.92Oct1203636@chopin.cs.columbia.edu>
	<1992Oct2.114504.26092@dsg.cs.tcd.ie> <28903@life.ai.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 03:37:31 GMT

>  In article <1992Oct2.114504.26092@dsg.cs.tcd.ie> cjmchale@dsg.cs.tcd.ie (Ciaran McHale) writes:
> 
> 	  In <RMF.92Oct1203636@chopin.cs.columbia.edu> rmf@chopin.cs.columbia.edu
> 	  (Robert M. Fuhrer) writes:
> 
> 	  >[wants to be able to determine how big the output page is so PS
> 	  >programs can scale themselves to fill it]
> 
> 	  The default clipping path is the imagable area of the output page.
> 	  Simply call "clippath flattenpath pathbbox".
> 
>  Try to avoid doing such things UNLESS you are sure that noone will EVER try
>  and use this as an inserted figure.  If your graphics is included as an
>  EPS file somewhere this trick will kill any positioning and scaling done by
>  the enclosing PS code.  Most annoying that some reall applications produce
>  code just like this!  In defense, the application importing the PS has to
>  play games like changing the clipping path...

The idea was to be able to write postscript code that would "work" regardless
of the output medium. Therefore, I needed to be sure that such code could be
reasonably inserted (i.e., scaled and translated) in an output page. So the
included code would not have the "clippath flattenpath pathbbox", the including
code would.
--

-- Bob
From: oran@spg.amdahl.com (Oran Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Info: A PostScript viewer/editor
Date: 30 Sep 92 01:30:03 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corp., Sunnyvale CA

Hi PostScripters,

Possibly an FAQ:

Seeking a viewer for X11r4 that will perform as the Sun Xnews
based viewer does. GhostScript seems to be cumbersom to use for
our users and I can't get it to do the nice fast pan a zoom like
the OpenWin pageview tool does under Sun.
I need it for pure X-terminals not running Xnews.

Any pointers appreciated.


Thanks,
	>- Oran
From: bkph@kauai.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Need "handwriting-like" PostScript font
Date: 28 Sep 92 12:22:36 GMT
Distribution: comp
In-reply-to: jit@Xenon.stanford.edu's message of 28 Sep 92 05:20:28 GMT


In article <JIT.92Sep28012028@Xenon.stanford.edu> jit@Xenon.stanford.edu (Satyajit Nath) writes:

   I am looking for a PostScript font that would let me print text as if 
   it is handwritten. I believe such fonts are known as "cursive" fonts.
   I have access to ZapfChancery, but it looks too "flourishy" ...

LucidaHandwriting-Italic designed by Kris Holmes of Bigelow & Holmes is
great for this.  It's part of the LucidaBright + LucidaNewMath font set.

There also some `stick-writing' PD fonts flying around,such as that by
Haeberli...

Berthold K.P. Horn
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Problem printing PS document
Date: 30 Sep 92 06:19:52 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <1992Sep28.185825.10805@inesc.pt> usenet@inesc.pt (USENET News System) writes:
<
<	I have the following problem:
<		I have some documents written in postscript, and I am trying
<to print them, but they are not coming out at all.
<		The documents are from an electronically distributed magazine, 
<and some issues come out perfect, but others just don't come out. 
<		The OS is Unix, and I use lpr -Pps <filename> to print.
<	I get no errors during this, and when I do lpq to see the queue, it
<reports that it IS printing, which is obviously not true.
<
<	I would appreciate any suggestion as to the nature of the problem,
<preferably through email, as I don't usually read this newsgroup.

It is extremely tough, for me anyway, to see what is wrong with a file when
I haven't seen the file.  Please post an example problem file, or send me
a copy.
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: davis@dssdev.enet.dec.com (Peter Davis)
Subject: Re: Transparent Halftoning
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 15:13:18 GMT


In article <1992Oct2.163303.15592@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>, gonzo@lonestar.utsa.edu (Jerry . Gonzalez) writes...
> 
>I was wondering if there is a way to do transparent 
>halftoning?  Well, let me explain what I'm doing.
>By using PostScript I've already got an image of a
>brain displayed.  Now, what I need to do is overlay
>a grid of boxes (filled with different gray tones) 
>over the brain.  Is there a way to make this boxes 
>somewhat transparent so the brain image can still
>be seen under the boxes?  Hope thus made sense.
>
You can achieve this by using the imagemask operator to draw a gray tone
pattern, clipped, if desired, to the shape you want to draw.  There's no way
to use the built-in setscreen operator, since this always paints both on and
off pixels, ie, it does NOT do transparency.  Using imagemask is effective,
but it will be slow.


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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B)
Subject: Re: listing fonts
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 14:53:30 GMT

In article <1992Sep25.204223.1426@lmt.mn.org> timw@county.lmt.mn.org (Timothy  
Wright) writes:
> As far as I am concerned, the proper way to do a font query that 
> works for level 1 and 2 printers is something like:

As far as I'm concerned, that's wrong.  Doesn't work one
bit on my (Level 2 Display PostScript) NeXT screen, so it
shouldn't work on my NeXTprinter either.

ab
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: jaffe@hoss.unl.edu (David Jaffe)
Subject: next -- does postscript work well?
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 19:17:28 GMT

I am contemplating trying to get myself a next.  Are there any problems 
printing raw postscript files on a next?  Does dvips (rokicki) work well with
it?  I have heard that the postscript interpretation is done by the main
machine (and not by the printer).  Is this true?  Are there any problems?

David Jaffe (jaffe@hoss.unl.edu)
University of Nebraska -- Lincoln
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
From: grover@mighty-joe.isri.unlv.edu (Kevin Grover)
Subject: Re: FAQ - any volunteers?
Reply-To: grover@isri.unlv.edu
Organization: Information Science Research Institute (UNLV-ISRI)
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 21:42:24 GMT

In article <1992Sep30.161717.15853@gvl.unisys.com>, wrp@ivy.unisys.com (Bill Pringle) writes:
) From: wrp@ivy.unisys.com (Bill Pringle)
) Subject: FAQ - any volunteers?
) Organization: Paramax Systems, Ivyland, PA
) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 09:17:17 PDT
) 
) 
) Anyone feel like volunteering to take charge of the FAQ for this group?
) 
) It seems that we have a lot of FAQs that keep appearing, usually preceeded
) by "I tried to find a FAQ, but ..." or "this is probably a FAQ ..."
) 
) I would rather not volunteer because:
) 	(a) I only know enough postscript to be dangerous
) 	(b) I don't have much time.
) 
) On the other hand, I would be willing to try to put something together
) if we couldn't find any sucker - er, kind soul to take charge.

The last FAQ I have was posted 23 Jan 1992 and was being maintained by
Ken (shiva@well.sf.ca.us).  I don't think I'd have the time to
officially keep this list (nor do I know enough PostScript), but I
wouldn't mind helping.  If you want this old version as a starting
point, let me know.

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From: jkn@ohm.york.ac.uk (John Nicoll)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Laserjet emulation possible on PS?
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:44:49 GMT
Organization: Electronics Department, University of York, UK

Hello all
	I'm interested if anyone has written an
HP-LaserJet
emulation package for PostScript interpreters
(and in general, in other printer emulations) .
I realise that this might be a FAQ, but I
haven't seen such a thing on this newsgroup.

I'd be very grateful for any information
email replies preferred - I'll summarise if necessary.

	best wishes
		john Nicoll

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From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: FAQ - any volunteers?
Date: 1 Oct 92 03:30:59 GMT
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada

In article <1992Sep30.161717.15853@gvl.unisys.com> wrp@ivy.unisys.com (Bill Pringle) writes:

>Anyone feel like volunteering to take charge of the FAQ for this group?

>It seems that we have a lot of FAQs that keep appearing, usually preceeded
>by "I tried to find a FAQ, but ..." or "this is probably a FAQ ..."

>I would rather not volunteer because:
>	(a) I only know enough postscript to be dangerous
>	(b) I don't have much time.

>On the other hand, I would be willing to try to put something together
>if we couldn't find any sucker - er, kind soul to take charge.

I volunteer to go thru the hoops of registering it and doing the posting,
but I don't have the time to put it together or doing any ongoing
maintenance.  If someone wants to do the putting together (possibly
including the existing obsolete one), and do further editting, this
would work well.

Besides, I probably know even less postscript than you... ;-)
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From: taluskie@utpapa.ph.utexas.edu (Vince Taluskie)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: 2-way serial communication problem with PS and HPljIIIsi
Date: 1 Oct 92 05:33:59 GMT
Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin

In article <=%#@byu.edu> cliftf@byu.edu writes:

>I want to know how many pages the printer has actually printed at the
>end of each print job.  I'm working with an HP ljIIIsi laser printer
>with the Adobe postscript option. 

I'm looking into doing this also...

You might want to investigate lprps, the source to it is explained in
the Steven's book on "Advanced C Programming in the UNIX Environment"
Chapter 17, I believe.

I am currently investigating this package as well as psf and Transcript 2.1
If anyone has input on this matter, I'd like to hear about it. I have a
choice of three types of systems to use for page accounting: Ultrix 4.2,
AIX 3.2.2, and a recently acquired SGI Crimson.  Whichever one will work
most painlessly will probably get drafted for this duty :-)


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