Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] preview-1.287; Installation warns about impossibilities

[David Kastrup]

Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> writes:

> Reinhard Kotucha <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Hi Reinhard,
>
>>  >     $ mgs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH
>>
>> In order to test whether the interpreter works you can try
>>
>>   mgs -q -dNODISPLAY -c "2 3 mul ==" -c quit
>>
>> or, if you are only interested in the exit status,
>>
>>   mgs -q -dNODISPLAY -c "2 3 mul" -c quit
>
> Ok, now I'm using the latter.

That leaves a non-empty stack, so I'd rather use "2 3 mul pop".  Any
reason why that's necessary at all?  Why would not just -c quit be
sufficient?  After all, quit is interpreted by the PostScript
interpreter just the same as 2 3 mul would be?

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David Kastrup