Re: [Groff] Re: Printing from groff in cygwin

[Larry Jones]

address@hidden writes:
> 
> For PostScript this should not matter. According to the language
> definition, the standard input character set for PS is the printable
> subset of ASCII (codes 32-126) plus tab and "newline", where "newline"
> means CR (r) or LF (\n) or CRFLF (\r\n) -- all are translated into
> "newline" by the PS input interpreter.

As of PostScript Level 2 (and Display PostScript), that is unfortunately
no longer true -- there are two true binary encodings that use all 256
eight-bit characters and arbitrarily long "lines" in addition to the
traditional ASCII encoding.

-Larry Jones

Some people just don't have inquisitive minds. -- Calvin