From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@9fans.net
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:32:35 -0700
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Subject: Re: [9fans] mpictures and ms: text before is gone
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> /n/sources/contrib/pietro/saturn.tar has an example of what I mean.
>
> 	troff -ms -mpictures tmac.colors saturnhd.ms history.ms

cpu% tar xf /n/sources/contrib/pietro/saturn.tar
cpu% for (i in *.ps) echo $i `{sed 1q $i}
pioneer11.ps %!PS-Adobe-2.0 div 112 page header - research!pg
saturnsymbol.ps %!PS-Adobe-2.0 div 112 page header - research!pg
cpu%

Each of these files begins with an lp-style banner page.
That postscript code reinitializes the postscript interpreter,
among other things, clearing the page.

Things will work better if you generate the files without
the banner pages.  Running

  aux/p9bitpost file.bit > file.ps

will produce postscript without the banner page.

I'm quite confused as to how they could have gotten there.

Russ