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by fouc 923 days ago
Code looks good! Postscript is a pretty sweet alternative to forth.
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Back in the olden days, it was not uncommon to print bitmap graphics files from compressed graphics source (e.g., gif, jpg, tif¹) by sending code to decompress the compressed graphics data alongside a base64-encoding of the data.

1. These were the only compressed graphics format options available back then.