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Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] preview-1.287; Installation warns about impossibilities
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Reinhard Kotucha |
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Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] preview-1.287; Installation warns about impossibilities |
Date: |
Tue, 2 Jul 2013 22:37:54 +0200 |
On 2013-07-02 at 09:54:37 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> 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?
Hi David,
yes, -c quit is definitely the smallest valid PostScript program I can
think of.
Regards,
Reinhard
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