Bug in ps2epsi in debian distro (lindows)

Joel Hammer Joel
Mon May 17 11:46:50 PDT 2004


Just to let the folks on this list know.

I downloaded some postscript tools from the lindows warehouse. I think that
ps2epsi comes from psutils but I can't swear.

When I ran ps2epsi, I got a sed error. The eps file seemed to be generated
but it wouldn't display. The problem was a long sed statement with wrap
arounds, like so:
sed -e '/badbig expression/d' -e '/anotherbadexpress/d'\
-e '/Yetanotherbig expression/d'

The problem is that there is no space between the \ on the first line and the
-e on the second line. 

How this could get loose in the wild is beyond me.

Joel



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