Re: misc/50116: MKREPRO: PostScript files include time stamp

[John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/50116; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, misc-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost,
        Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Cc: 
Subject: Re: misc/50116: MKREPRO: PostScript files include time stamp
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 02:24:55 -0700

 On Aug 4,  8:35am, David Holland wrote:
 }
 } The following reply was made to PR misc/50116; it has been noted by GNATS.
 } 
 } From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
 } To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 } Subject: Re: misc/50116: MKREPRO: PostScript files include time stamp
 } Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 08:34:51 +0000
 } 
 }  On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 06:30:01PM +0000, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 }   >  Reading src/gnu/dist/groff/src/devices/grops/ps.cpp I see that it's
 }   >  hardcoded that it'll always produce it.
 }   >  
 }   >  How about a postprocessing step that just does 'grep -v ^%%CreationDate:'?
 }  
 }  Will that break the file? I suppose probably not.
 
      "%" is the PostScript comment indicator.  From "PostScript Language
 Reference Manual  Second Edition":
 
 %%CreationDate:	<textline>
 
 		The comment indicates the date and time the document was
 		created.  Neither the date nor time need be in any standard
 		format.  This comment is meant to be used purely for
 		informational purposes, such as printing on banner pages.
 
 In other words, leaving it out won't break the file.  Hopefully there
 aren't any tools that demand it.  If there is, the tool is probably
 broken anyways.
 
 }-- End of excerpt from David Holland