versions of dvips from 5.490 to 5.493 are BROKEN

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Author: Reinhard Zierke
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 09:20

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> From: richard@cs.anu.edu.au (Richard Walker)
> Subject: OFFICIAL NOTICE:  DVIPS 5.490--5.493 USERS READ THIS!
> Summary: versions of dvips from 5.490 to 5.493 are BROKEN
> 
> Tomas Rokicki (author of dvips) asked me to post this news item
> because he can't (he has no UseNet access).
> 
> It seems that I discovered a rather big bug in dvips versions
> 5.490 through to 5.493.  Basically, if your document has more than
> 21 fonts, you will get extremely weird output.  The problem
> is in tex.pro (find it if you can!).
> 
> Tomas asks everybody using 5.490, 5.492 (especially!), and 5.493
> to STOP using them, and pick up 5.495 from
> labrea.stanford.edu, pub/dvips5495.tar.Z and pub/dvips5493lib.tar.Z
> (the library for 5.495 is the same as that for 5.493).
> 
> At the time of writing, you may find that the file emspecial.c
> doesn't compile because the symbols SEEK_END and SEEK_SET are
> not defined.  Just put an appropriate #include at the top
> of emspecial.c.  On Suns, that is
> #include <unistd.h>
> Everything else compiles smoothly.
> 
> If you are using really old versions of dvips, such as 5.47, then
> I especially recommend the upgrade because those old versions do
> not produce conforming PostScript.  The newer versions do, so you
> can use programs such as psnup and psselect to play with the
> output.
> 
> Oh, and if you're not using dvips at all, then now's the time
> to start!
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Richard.
> -- 
> Richard Walker                            richard@cs.anu.edu.au
> Department of Computer Science            Aust:  (06) 249 5687
> The Australian National University        Intl: +61 6 249 5687
> GPO Box 4, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia

DVIPS 5.495 gibt's auch auf der ftp.informatik.uni-hamburg.de in
pub/tex/dvips5495.tar.Z und pub/tex/dvips5493lib.tar.Z

Reinhard
-- 
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zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de  Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-2000 Hamburg 54
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