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%%  The LaTeX Graphics Companion, 2ed (first printing May 2007)
%% 
%%  Example 6-2-43 on page 353.
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%%  Copyright (C) 2007 Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, Denis Roegel, Sebastian Rahtz, Herbert Vo\ss 
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%%  It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%%  of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
%%  of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%%  See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%% 

\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{159.83385pt}
\setlength\parindent{0pt}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{pstricks,pst-node}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\begin{pspicture}(4,3)
  \rput[bl](0,0){\rnode{A}{A}}
  \rput[tr](3,3){\rnode{B}{B}}
  \ncbox{A}{B}
  \rput[bl](1,0){\rnode{C}{C}}
  \rput[tr](4,3){\rnode{D}{D}}
  \ncarcbox[nodesep=5pt,linearc=0.3,linestyle=dashed,%
      boxsize=0.25cm,arcangle=45]{C}{D}
\end{pspicture}
\end{document}