bug in "readline" ?

[Axel Kowald]

Hi,

please have a look at this very short PS program.

====================================================================
%!PS
/Times-Roman findfont 18 scalefont setfont
100 100 moveto

/readNextLine {
  currentfile 500 string readline 
  {(line read) show}{(eof before newline) show} ifelse 
  showpage
} def

readNextLine
thisTextIsRead
=======================================================================

If you save this and take care that there is NO newline after
"thisTextIsRead" then readline should return false and the program
should print "eof before newline". If I send this to our PS printer it
does this, but if I run it with gsview 2.7 (ghostscript 5.5) under
windows it returns "line read" :-(

Is this a known bug, or what am I doing wrong ?


Many thanks,

        Axel Kowald