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

[Reinhard Kotucha]

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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