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- From: rjl@fawlty6.eng.monash.edu.au (Russell Lang)
- Subject: Re: Help w/ emTeX (actually dvips)
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 05:46:38 GMT
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- moss@cs.umass.edu writes:
-
- >I have found that at least some versions of dvips do arbitrarily bad things
- >with long lines in config.ps (I was trying to list all my font library files,
- >which I made myself, and there are over ten of them, but I found that I could
- >give the directory as an item and then use short names; this still broke with
- >an older dvips, but the latest dvips386 swallos it fine).
-
- 'Some versions' means dvips 5.47 or earlier.
- dvips 5.47 tries to load all font library files listed and leave them
- open. However most MSDOS C compilers limit the number of open files
- to 20, of which 5 are used for stdin, stdout, stderr, stdaux, stdprn,
- another three are used for input file, output file, and header file,
- which leaves a limit of 12 files for font libraries.
-
- Later versions (including all Windows and 386 versions) keep only the
- 4 most recently used font libraries open, for people who have enough
- disk space to leave more than 12 font libraries lying around.
-
-
- IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT
-
- For people who are having problems with dvips,
-
- Read the section of dvips.tex titled 'Diagnosing Problems'
- and its subsection 'Debug Options'.
-
- This describes the 'dvips -d-1' option which is invaluable for
- finding why dvips can't find the right files.
-
- --
- Russell Lang Email: rjl@fawlty4.eng.monash.edu.au Phone: (03) 565 3460
- Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering
- Monash University, Australia
-