Bug#196113: tetex-bin: dvips creates invalid output when exactly 21 environment variables are set

[Jason McCarty <bclg@iup.edu>]

Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> On 04.06.03 Jason McCarty (bclg@iup.edu) wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > When exactly 21 environment variables are set, dvips for some
> > reason inserts the text "A4size" in the %%BeginSetup section of the
> > output, causing ghostscript to fail, saying it's undefined. This is
> > the only difference that appears when I change the number of
> > environment variables. The attached file demonstrates the behavior.
> > 
> *very* wild guess: Could you have a look at #147976?

That does indeed look very much like my bug, and when I apply that patch
the problem appears (on limited testing) to go away. I only ever
discovered it because running a shell script (which calls dvips) from
Vim over an SSH session happened to accumulate the "magic" number of
variables, so it's a rare problem, as the previous submitter noted ;-)

Thanks for the response.

Jason