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What, me again!!

Well thanks to all the people who have helped me get DVIPS up and
running on VMS. I now have a working/limping system running DVIPS
5.474. I tried to build 5.56, seemed OK but couldn't get any output,
some kind soul sent me a working 5.474 so...

Stiil a couple of problems remain and I was hoping someone could help
me sort them out.

1) Postscript fonts.

I want to produce docs using postscript fonts but I cant work out what
to do. DVIPS seems to look for fonts TEX_VFDIR:font.vf. Unfortunately
there were no .vf fonts in the distribution I got. Two questions:
	(a) Does DVIPS really need these .vf fonts? Or are the TFM
	fonts the same just need some definition?
	(b) Is this all I need to do to get postscript font output?
	That is, I just get/build the .vf fonts and voila! postscript 
	fonts in output doc.

2) Some \special{psfile...} keys dont work

The angle=, hoffset, etc keys in \special{psfile=file.ps} are ignored.
Only the hscale and vscale keys are successful. Is this a known
problem? Do I need to do something different? 
Used via \special{psfile=filename.ps hscale=70 angle=90 voffset=100}
etc.

Any assistance gratefully received.


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Regards, Robert Burling-Claridge, WRONZ, Lincoln, NZ.
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