psset bug?

[Robert M. Marmorstein]

We are running version 4.13 of a2ps on a SuSE 9.3 system (both 32 and 64 
bit architecture).

When we try to use psset -m on a postscript file, the output is bad 
postscript.  It seems that what is happening is the first character on the 
line is being replaced by a control character.

I believe this may be caused by an error on lines 253 and 254 of 
/usr/bin/psset.  Instead of:

# Prepare the sed command we want to run.
# End of lines must be protected by `\' but the last one, and leading
# spaces with a `\' too...

pspagedevice=`echo "$pspagedevice" | \
 sed -e "$pspagedevicelen!s/\$/\\\\\\/;s/^/\\\\\\/"`

I used:

pspagedevice=`echo "$pspagedevice" | \
 sed -e "$pspagedevicelen!s/\$/\\\\\\/;s/^ /\\\\\\ /"`

(Two spaces are missing from the sed expression).

This seemed to fix the problem.  

Let me know if I can help any further.

Robert Marmorstein
Ph. D. Program, Computer Science
College of William and Mary