[3943] in SIPB bug reports
Re: dvips -P broken
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Calvin Clark)
Mon Jul 19 10:48:24 1993
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 93 10:48:01 EDT
From: Calvin Clark <ckclark@mit.edu>
To: "Albert Dvornik" <bert@athena.mit.edu>
Cc: bug-sipb@athena.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 19 Jul 93 02:09:21 -0400.
<9307190609.AA18326@oliver.MIT.EDU>
> Ummmm... if the users DTRT and end the paths with a colon when
> setting the appropriate env vars, then the system defaults get
> appended to the TFM and PK paths and dvips finds the fonts.
> If the env var does not end with a colon, this means "this is all of
> the path that I want." I don't think we want to disable this.
Oh, that's a well documented semantic, now isn't it? Does it work in
TeX, too? It used to cause TeX to dump core if you had a trailing
colon. :-) This behavior is not documented in the man page.
-Calvin
