Re: [Groff] problem with current snapshot

[Joerg van den Hoff]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 04:05:08PM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> > what seems buggy is the following:
> >
> > I now get "numeric overflow" errors/warnings for each `.PSPIC' call
> > although the generated output looks alright.
> 
> Example, please.
> 
> 
>     Werner

in trying to boil it down to an easy example, the error first went away,
apparently. in the process of clarifying this, I think I found the real problem:

if the total length of the complete filename (inclduing path, which was lon in
my original case) exceeds 35 characters, one gets the error, otherwise it 
vanishes, i.e.

.PSPIC 123456789_123456789_123456789_12345

works OK, while

.PSPIC 123456789_123456789_123456789_123456

produces the `numeric overflow'.

file content has nothing to do with it, so I think you'll can reproduce it with
the above two lines (simply soft-link both th funny filenames above to the same 
arbitrary ps-file with a picture).

if you then put

.PSPIC 123456789_123456789_123456789_12345
.PSPIC 123456789_123456789_123456789_123456

in a file, you get one numeric overflow message.


is this enough, or do you need anything else?

joerg