[3879] in Athena Bugs
A bug with psrev
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anne R. LaVin)
Tue Jan 2 16:18:58 1990
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 90 16:18:38 EST
From: Anne R. LaVin <lavin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Program with which you had the problem: psrev
Name of person who discovered the bug: Anne LaVin
Their MIT phone number: 0115
Their MIT address: e40-343a
Their Athena Login ID: lavin
Name of consultant reporting bug:
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A brief synopsis of the problem:
psrev does not appear, as far as I can tell, to work on postscript
files that were created via LaTeX and dvi2ps. This is not documented
in the man page...if it's going to be a bug for a while, it'd be nice
if the man page mentioned it, at least.
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Please describe the problem in detail (mention any necessary files or
commands that may be involved, on which machine the bug happened, and what
the program did that was wrong):
I was running this on a microvax II, if that makes any difference, and
I was using the version of LaTeX in /usr/sipb/vaxbin/latex, and the
psrev in /usr/athena/psrev (don't know if there is any other one...)
The error message is:
psrev: PS file does not begin with a version identifier
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Repeat by (please enter a set of commands which will allow us to
repeat the bug):
create any file foo.tex
latex foo.tex
dvi2ps foo.dvi >foo.PS
psrev foo.PS
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Fix (if you know what it is):
no idea...
