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- To: tiff@sgi.sgi.com
- Subject: bug in fax2ps
- Cc: cdl@mpl.UCSD.EDU
- Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1995 12:45:27 PST
- From: cdl@mpl.UCSD.EDU (Carl Lowenstein)
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- Elicited by trying to convert page 12 of HAKMEM, as obtained from MIT
- Artificial Intelligence Lab.
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- Sources came as v3.3beta021.src.tar.gz.
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- File "contrib/fax2ps/fax2ps.c", rev 1.32.
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- There is a constant CODEHASH = 8209, used in construction of a hash table.
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- In principle, the size of the table "maxcodes" is increased from its
- initial value "MAXCODES = 6000" when the number of entries "ncodes"
- becomes too great.
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- However, when the number of entries "ncodes" becomes equal to 8209, the
- search through the table (lines 45-58 of fax2ps.c) seems to take
- forever.
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- If you have an example tiff that causes fax2ps to loop then please
- send it directly to me uuencoded in a mail message (or send me a
- patch to a file that I can retrieve by public ftp).
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- Sam
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