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From: nowlin@ihuxy.ATT.COM (Jerry Nowlin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: string concatenation
Keywords: PostScript strings debug interpreters
Message-ID: <2564@ihuxy.ATT.COM>
Date: 28 Jun 88 14:05:56 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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I'm learning PS slowly and have a couple questions.  I have all three
Adobe books and have tried to infer one thing in particular to no avail.
How do you concatenate several strings together into one in PS?  A small
example would be worth a thousand words.  I have tried "copy" and "put"
but my programming environment is becoming a real source of frustration.

My big problem is that I have to write a program, send it out over the
network to a laser printer and then walk down to the printer to see if I
got some printout or not.  If I screwed anything up I get no output at
all.  It makes debugging a real pleasure.  Has anyone found some more
reasonable alternatives to this scenario?  I have UNIX or MS-DOS at my
disposal but so far nothing that can display PS but that laser printer. 
Thanks.

Jerry