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

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 10.06.03 Jason McCarty (bclg@iup.edu) wrote:

Hi,

> 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 ;-)
> 
So, what to do now? My proposal is to forward both bugs to upstream,
namely Tomas Rockiki and fix it there, hoping it will migrate into
tetex. As long as this is not done we can apply that patch to our
dvips.

H. 
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