gvokalek@augean.ua.OZ.AU (George Vokalek) (06/24/91)
The latext version of AmigaTeX dvips (file size 70664) seems to have a problem driving iff2ps correctly. Every time it tries to include an iff file in the postscript, iff2ps returns 'Not a valid iff file'. By using snoopdos I tracked this problem to the exec call which dvips uses to start iff2ps. The call looks as follows: 'iff2ps -f tex:ps/special.pro foo.ps ....' The '....' should include the name of the iff file, but snoopdos does not display it. There are two problems here: 1) iff2ps according to its documentation requires the iff file name as the first argument, then the postscript file name. 2) the '-f' flag is argument free, it does not require the 'tex:ps/special.pro' argument. It seems that the string 'tex:ps/special.pro' is getting into the command line when it should not. In the short term, I will try to write a filter to remove the extra argument before it reaches dvips. (Tomas, I have lost your net address, so mail me if this gets through to you. Otherwise I will send snailmail.) George Vokalek.