Bug#747519: bibtool: "Symbol does not start with a letter" random errors with pipe
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Hello Again,
the upstream maintainer is working on it.
Meanwhile, it appears that putting a sufficiently long `print.line.length' fixes the issue:
a length of 255 for the sent material does the trick.
Best wishes,
Jerome
On 10/05/14 00:32, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2014-05-09 19:25:33 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>> Please can you send a data file that produces the issue along with
>> the command line used.
>
> I've attached an archive containing the script and the input.
> Just execute:
>
> ./extract-bib-files.sh
>
> The bug doesn't always occur, and one may need more than 10 tries.
> I've also managed to get a strace output with:
>
> strace -f -o str.out ./extract-bib-files.sh
>
> (this was more difficult to reproduce) and attached the result.
>
>> Otherwise, can you say whether the bug exists with version 2.55 ?
>
> Yes, I can also reproduce the bug with version 2.55 from wheezy.
>
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