app-text/a2ps ships psset (shell script); psset -d (to set duplex) creates corrupt postscript. See also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=163780 which notes that it only happens with some versions of sed installed; (I'd comment there but don't want Yet Another Bugzilla Logon). It's caused by an attempt (using sed) to escape leading whitespace in a postscript fragment for insertion by a sed filter; it actually inserts a backslash at the start of every line. It's this which causes the final sed filter invocation to see \countdictstack, \c for control, control-O, resulting in ^Ountdictstack. Fix is to only escape a leading space with a backslash, instead of inserting a backslash at the start of every line. --- t 2006-03-16 12:30:48.000000000 +0100 +++ /usr/bin/psset 2006-03-16 12:28:14.000000000 +0100 @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ # spaces with a `\' too... pspagedevicelen=`echo "$pspagedevice" | wc -l` pspagedevice=`echo "$pspagedevice" | \ - sed -e "$pspagedevicelen!s/\$/\\\\\\/;s/^/\\\\\\/"` + sed -e "$pspagedevicelen!s/\$/\\\\\\/;s/^ /\\\\\\/"` case $at in 0) # Insert last in the Setup, so that we win over other requests.
thanks, I added your patch to a2ps-4.13c-r5.ebuild
