On 2010-05-11 12:29-0500 Geoffrey Furnish wrote:

> Geoffrey Furnish writes:
> > Alan W. Irwin writes:
> >  > C++ and OCaml are perfect, and here is the status of the remaining
> >  > non-perfect bindings:
> >  >
> >  > tcl
> >  >    Missing examples            :
> >  >    Differing postscript output :  19 21 28
> >  >    Missing stdout              :
> >  >    Differing stdout            :  21
> >
> > I believe I've fixed Tcl #19.  Let me know if anyone finds otherwise.
>
> BTW, the only difference I see in example 21 postscript output, is the time
> stamp:

Glad you got a good result for that.

As I said earlier in this thread my x21 result for Tcl is an artifact of not
having Tcl8.5 which also explains the different stdout in my case.  That
message was

This example require Tcl 8.5 or later: use of NaNs

> Frankly, I don't like the idea of a timestamp in an output file, for exactly
> this reason.  It makes for differences in files that would otherwise be
> identical.  Could we just take the timestamp line out of all the psc output?
> Why is it there, anyway?  Is it a postscript specification?

I believe I have run into PostScript files without a time stamp so I don't
think it is necessary.  However, the timestamp occurs very early in the
file so it is easy to deal with it using tail (or cmp).
So I feel neutral about removing the timestamp or not.

Alan
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