tts@ttank.ttank.com (Karl Bunch) (05/01/91)
I know of: (%stdin) - Standard input (%stdout) - Standard output (%stderr) - Standard error (%statementedit) - ?? (%lineedit) - ?? What I want to know is what are %statementedit and %lineedit for and what other special files are available? Karl -- % ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- % Karl Bunch ||| UUCP: ..!uunet!zardoz!ttank!karl % Think Tank Software ||| INTERNET: karl@ttank.com % "...you'd be suprised how far a hug will go with Geordi, even Worf!" -- Riker
heiney@wsl.dec.com (Bob Heiney) (05/02/91)
> What I want to know is what are %statementedit and %lineedit for These files are for use by PostScript interpreters which support an interactive executive. Using the file operator on %statementedit accumulates input in a temporary buffer, parsing editing control chars, until a statement has been read. A statement is (quoting from the new Redbook) "one or more lines terminated by a newline that together form one or more complete PostScript language tokens, with no opening brackets ( {, (, <, or <~ ) left unmatched." When the statement has been read, file returns. %lineedit is like %statementedit except that it returns after a line has been read, regardless of whether that line is a complete statement. > and what other special files are available? These are all of the special files that are described by the new Redbook. See Section 3.8.3, Special Files, pp. 78-80 of the PostScript Language Reference Manual, Second Edition. Information about these files is also in the original Redbook. /Bob
woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) (05/03/91)
In article <1991Apr30.170335.863@ttank.ttank.com>, tts@ttank.ttank.com (Karl Bunch) writes: > > What I want to know is what are %statementedit and %lineedit for These are used by the executive in interactive mode. I believe that they are documented in the red book, and in the red /white book. Cheers Woody