rjl@monu1.cc.monash.oz ( r lang) (02/27/91)
In article <905@keele.keele.ac.uk>, csa29@seq1.kl.ac.uk (A. Herath) writes: > > I was trying to get the dvips (547) for msdos working but without any > success. I have downloaded the compiled version (from few archives > including ymir ) None of them seems to work. > > When I tried to convert sample.dvi (sample.tex in TeX distribution) into > PS It terminates with the error message : > > E:\EMTEX\DVIPS.EXE : ! couldn't open PostScript file > > and if I use > > dvips -f sample > > Then it terminates with : > > E:\EMTEX\DVIPS.EXE : ! Couldn't find header file texc.pro This looks like the 'can't open enough files problem' Please check that in CONFIG.SYS, files is set to 20 or more. If using a network, check that the network does not limit the number of open files to less than 20. Make sure that you are not opening more than 12 font libraries, since this will cause the total number of open files to exceed 20, a limit imposed by Turbo C. In your first attempt above, it appears that dvips ran out of files when it tried to open the postscript file. In the second attempt, dvips read the dvi file from standard input, so one less file was opened. This allowed the postscript file to be opened, but it then ran out of files opening the header file! To track file openings, use: dvips -d-1 input_filename This will display lots of debug messages about file openings, font access etc. -- Russell Lang Email: rjl@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au Phone: (03) 565 3460 Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering Monash University, Australia