Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> I should note that whenever I edit file names/paths in the .dtl file,
> dt2dv issues some warnings about resizing strings. My last experiment
> was to change the second Temp in the above path to progressively longer
> names (Temp012345, Temp0123456789abc, etc.) until yap broke. I got to a
> point where, according to dt2dv, the total lengths of the arguments to
> the three special commands were 219, 223 and 221. At this point, yap
> displayed the first image but broke on the second one. So I suspect
> that somewhere between 219 and 223 is a limit to how long a string yap
> can process. This limit appears to include not just the path/file name
> but also the "PSFile=" part, the bounding box parameters, etc.
Ok, Paul. I have reported the problem in a long and rambling post to the
MiKTeX users' list.
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.miktex
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.miktex:3583
We'll see if they can shed any light on it.
The good news is that we're the masters of our own destiny here; we can
certainly change the mangled file name if necessary.
--
Angus
